About Heather Jean Jordan
Heather Jean Jordan is a Manitoba farm-girl who trained as an opera singer and classical pianist before moving to Banff and finding her home in folk music and the ukulele. A multi-disciplinary creator, performer, educator and Banff Poet Laureate (2025/2026), her work is deeply rooted in nature, community, and the stories that connect us. She makes her home in Banff, Alberta, Canada, and has performed locally and across the prairies for over a decade. Her debut folk album, “Some Dappled Night,” was released fall 2023.
Heather Jean’s artistic mission is to illuminate the beauty, poetry, and connection present in our day-to-day lives, utilizing all the gifts she has been given. Influenced by her rural upbringing and Scottish-Irish-Icelandic heritage, stories, poetry, and a sense of play are the beating heart of her artistic practice—a cross-pollination of poetry, theatre, storytelling, music, and dance. Her work explores our relationships with self-worth, mysticism, and the natural world, with an emphasis on performance, collaboration, communal experiences, and kindness.
Known mainly as a singer-songwriter, Heather Jean’s genre stretching work extends to dance, theatre, and poetry. She gained national recognition for her work ringing bells through the pandemic. She composed the music, co-created and continues to perform in ‘Splish Splash!’- a children’s theatre/puppetry/dance production which debuted at Calgary’s Festival of Animated Objects. Her poetry has been set to art song by acclaimed composer Chris Byman and performed alongside other notable Manitoba poets including Winnipeg Poet Laureate Chimwemwe (Chim) Undi, and John K Samson. She was named Banff’s 2025/2026 Poet Laureate and spent a week with the children of Banff Elementary school composing a song for the G7 Summit, an inspirational anthem of hope entitled “A Single Seed.”
Performance highlights for Heather Jean include showcasing at Folk Alliance International, a solo amphitheater show at the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, Canmore Folk Festival’s Winter Warm Up, Whoop & Hollar Folk Festival, multiple performances at Canmore artsPlace, and a return to opera in collaboration with Peaks and Prairies Ensemble.
Always interested in collaboration, Heather Jean can also be found singing with The Three Sisters, a new, Bow-Valley-based, harmony trio. The Three Sisters combines the talents of singer-songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Heather Jean Jordan, Irene Poole, and Ji Won Baxter. Like many female trios before them, three unique voices blend to create musical alchemy, transcending genre or style. Named after the iconic local mountain range, rich harmonies and creative instrumentals form the bedrock for this trio as they traverse sonic landscapes, reaching breathtaking highs, otherworldly lows, and always carrying with them a light in the darkness. You will find them performing at Canmore Folk Festival this summer, 2025.