Jane Mortifee with Bill Sample and Darlene Cooper

JANE MORTIFEE with BILL SAMPLE AND DARLENE COOPER COME TO WHITE ROCK AN UNFORGETTABLE EVENING OF MUSIC.

Jane Mortifee 

For over 45 years Jane has found expression at various times as an actor in theatre, film and television and as a singer. She has released 3 CDs and for many years she was one of Vancouver’s top voiceover performers and a busy session singer on countless jingles and for a number of recording artists. She has performed with David Foster, Tom Jones, Paul Anka, John Denver and Ray Charles, to name a few. Jane is also a fiction writer. Her first novel Out Of The Fire is available on Amazon. She is currently working on her second novel. Before the pandemic Jane also led yoga at various Creative Writing retreats in Guatemala, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Wales, Scotland and Mexico. She has been nominated for 3 Jessi Awards, an Actra award, a Westcoast Music Award, and was inducted into the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2002. www.janemortifee.com

 Bill Sample and Darlene Cooper

Bill Sample

Bill is part of Wild Blue Herons with Darlene Cooper

He is a composer, arranger, record producer and piano player. In 2010, Bill received a Lifetime Achievement Award and Most Influential Jazz Musician from the Royal Canadian Music Project. In 2013, Bill was awarded the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal. During his 9 year tenure as Music Director for David Foster, he worked with Brian Adams, Celine Dion, Peter Cetera and Kenny Loggins, to name a few. He has also performed with Ray Charles, Mel Torme, Robben Ford, Art Pepper, Dee Daniels, Fraser MacPherson. Bill was musical director for Leon Bill for many years and recorded with him as well as with Eric Bibb, Michelle Wright, and Simple Plan and many others. He has opened for Oscar Peterson and Monty Alexander. Bill was the musical director for the Variety Club Telethon 1985-1995.He played on the Grammy winning score of the animated film Ratatouille. He is an Inductee into BC Ent Hall of Fame

Darlene Cooper

Darlene especially loves singing soul, jazz, gospel, R&B and funk covers as well as her original songs. She has worked with such artists as Leon Bibb, Eric Bibb, Shari Ulrich, Dee Daniels, Ann Mortifee plus various other Vancouver artists.

She co-writes with Bill Sample and together they are the band Wild Blue Herons. They have recorded 3 CDs one of which is also available on VINYL. For many years she was the choral director for the Marcus Moseley Chorale and along with Bill is one of the producers of the Port Moody series of concerts at the Inlet Theatre, currently in its 3rd season

This husband and wife team have a deep history in music: Bill has been an in-demand sideman for over 40 years, working as musical director and keyboard player for the legendary David Foster, while Darlene has built a reputation not just as an engaging jazz/soul/gospel singer, but an educator, choral conductor and session musician too. They met through the Vancouver- based Marcus Mosely Chorale (MMC) working together as musical (Bill) and choral (Darlene) directors. Bill and Darlene found an instant connection through a shared love of theory, complex chords and funky rhythms and soon began to co-arrange and co-write many of the MMC tunes. They have released two CDs of mostly original songs. www.wildblueherons.com