Jane is recognized around Acadiana, as a musician, folklorist, cultural activist, and teacher. She has been playing and singing since she was young and has always been drawn to the old masters to learn.

She studied ballad singing with the late Almeda Riddle documented and performed with French fiddlers and singers from the endangered French speaking area of Old Mines, Missouri. She studied fiddle with the late Lionel LeLeux and Dick Richard.

In the 1970's she worked as Folk Arts Coordinator for the National Park Service, planning programs, festivals, and museum exhibitions. She was Director of the Louisiana Folklife Pavilion at the 1984 World's Fair in New Orleans. It was here that she met her Cajun husband, John Vidrine. They married and moved to Lafayette where they had a Cajun band along with twin fiddlers Eric and Clay Chapman.

During her years in Lafayette, Jane has worked as a museum curator, producing exhibits on the diversification of the cultures in this region, as an artist in the schools, and in numerous cultural tourism projects including FrancoF�te '99.

One of her important undertakings was Louisiana Voices, a program which teaches schools how to preserve and present, within the school curriculums, the unique cultural heritage of Louisiana.

Jane and John live in Lafayette with their children Emily and Joseph.