Universal Jazz Advocates & Mentors Society Club Nights (U-JAM) are held monthly to give novice & experienced singers alike an opportunity to sing with our house band and learn more about a particular artist or composer. Instrumentalists are more than welcome...bring your charts! All ages are welcome. Mentors offer mini-presentations, and they will perform! Each month there is a theme and while the theme is encouraged, you are welcome to bring any jazz standards. To learn more or to sign up, please contact Kim Greenwood at [email protected]. For more info about our society and our other programs, please visit http://www.u-jam.ca

"Heather Burns, lives in Victoria, and works as a free-lance musician. She holds a MA in Performing Arts and enjoys opportunities to teach & perform both locally and abroad. Heather has released 3 CD’s, “Child’s Play” (2005) and “Road Back Home” (2008), both instrumental mixes of music reflecting the jazz, Celtic, Roots, and classical influences that have cultivated her style over 15 years of study and training; and “As Long As I’m Singing” (2016) with local swing/show band, Dock Side Drive.

Heather Burns has also done extensive work as a musician, arranger, writer & music director in the theatre with companies such as the Belfry Theatre, Western Canada and Chemainus Theatre, Victoria Operatic Society, and Kaleidoscope Theatre. Recent productions include Will Rogers Follies, My Fair Lady, Miss Saigon, Beauty & the Beast, Mary Poppins, Light in the Piazza, & Les Miserables. She is currently the Artistic & Education Director at Canadian College of Performing Arts. Her performing career has taken her through Europe, USA & Canada, but she also loves to be at home with family & friends enjoying the simple pleasures of life…a cup of coffee, a good conversation and the relationships that make life rich and inspire great music and art."