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"Jane Mortifee has a relaxed and easy-going style. Her rapport with her audience is warm and friendly. Technically her voice is strong and solid. Whatever she sings becomes her own. She can move from rock and roll to sentimental love songs with admirable ease and ability." CHQM, Alan MacInroy - Jane Mortifee at the Arts Club Theatre Granville Island - April 21, 1985 "The frustration in the show is that Jane Mortifee Birch, as Shirley, doesn't get to sing more than she does...because when she does she's electrifying and she's every bit as good with a line." The Vancouver Sun, Lloyd Dykk - Rock and Roll - April 28, 1990  "Jane Mortifee Birch torches the stage alight every time she opens her mouth."The Province, Max Wyman - Rock and Roll - April 29, 1990 "Jane is urban, funky, foxy." "Jane has a hard-edged gutsiness." "Jane ... is a fine musician ... who has crafted a distinctive singing and performing style that can be wholeheartedly enjoyed and appreciated without recourse to comparisons with her sister - or anyone else, for that matter." "Jane Mortifee's concert ... was a standout evening from first to last ... charismatic stage presence." "Jane Mortifee is an accomplished actress as well as singer, and a gifted mime and comedienne..." "She engages us, making us smile and laugh and move with the music, sharing her enjoyment of the music, of the moment, of life itself." "I find equal pleasure in her sultry moods, her red-hot vamping moments, her tender ballads and her belting hot-button numbers; she covers this wide range with grace and confidence."  "Jane Mortifee is a strong, individual vocal talent."CHQM, Ian Alexander - May 9, 1977 "Ballads and blues, torch songs and pop hits, jazz and rock--Jane Mortifee sings it all with depth, skill and feeling." CHQM "Jane Mortifee smiled at her audience and thanked them for coming...and you could feel the warmth in that crowded theatre go both ways." "--an evening of songs and entertainment given by a lady you know will give her best. And 'the best' of Jane Mortifee is very very good indeed; to borrow some superlatives from the book of junior reviewers' phrases, you could say 'Mort' is as good as anybody here in her chosen field. You cannot say she is just a singer/actress/comedienne--so please understand that the 'chosen' field is a big one and Jane is an outstanding performer in all aspects." "The audience and Jane Mortifee were good to each other - the difference between the ovation when she first walked on stage and when she finally departed were that the latter was about five minutes longer, and everybody was on their feet. Everybody realized it might be the last chance to tell Jane up close they love her. She'll be playing in much bigger halls soon." The Georgia Straight - August 19-26, 1976  "Her dramatic stage presence and ethereal voice during the song carried the audience into a sumptuous musical dreamland, much like the tornado that carried Dorthy off to the land of oz.""I came away convinced that Jane Mortifee is one of Vancouver's finest, most versatile female vocalists." Sun Music Critic, Neal Hall - March 14, 1983 "Jane's voice is a full, multi-colored, multi-textured instrument that can handle a surprising diversity of technical demands with relative ease. But beyond that, she has a special ability to give the emotional reach of each song a startling clarity and life of it's own, so that the music travels through rather than merely from her." "Whether she was being funky or ethereal, artsy or earthy, Jane fairly glowed and it was contagious." The Province, Jeani Read - August 11 , 1975 |
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