Jane Lindberg

Jane Lindberg

BY DICKIE ANDERSON PHOTO BY STEVE LEIMBERG, UNSEENIIMAGES.COM

Sometimes the best things come in small packages. Jane Lindberg is a petite dynamo who has been an active part of the Amelia Island/Nassau County arts community since she and her husband, Bob, moved here from South Carolina in 1998. They moved their company, Springer Controls, to Yulee and quickly became involved in their new community.

Jane directed her considerable energy to the Arts Academy, a non-profit dedicated to bringing performing and visual arts to the children of Nassau County. She was instrumental when the organization reorganized and became Arts Alive Nassau.

She has served as president of its Board of Directors since 2012. She credits the board, a part-time program director, and a potpourri of talented teachers, musicians, and artists who offer their talents to the many programs for the non-profit’s success. She was recognized with the 2019 Community Volunteer of the Year by the Florida Alliance for Arts Education for her role as board president of Arts Alive Nassau.

Jane has been instrumental in forming many groups that enrich the lives of both participants and those lucky enough to attend performances, including the Island Chamber Singers, First Coast Singers, and a community chorus for youth ages 10 to 14. She also formed the Songspinners, a group of women who get together weekly and sing pop, folk, Broadway, and other fun music. Community groups like Rotary and the Hospital Auxiliary welcomed their performances. They look forward to starting up again later this year.

As Musical Director at New Vision Congregational Church in Yulee, Jane has introduced jazz and rock-and-roll into services. Even with hands challenged by arthritis, she is still able do a mean rendition of Little Richard’s “Lucille,” a performance she shared with her congregation on one memorable Jazz Sunday.

She is especially proud of the Island Chamber Singers, a 62-member group in its 16th season, which performs classical music. They sing major choral literature and offer two concerts each year in December and April. Some of their proudest accomplishments include performing at Carnegie Hall in 2017 and at L’Eglise de la Madeleine in Paris in 2019. They have been invited to sing at Carnegie Hall again in 2022.

Jane also worked closely with the Plantation Artist’s Guild and Gallery on their community photo project, “2020 – A Look Back.” With help from Arts Alive Nassau, a video of the project was produced with background music composed and played by Jane herself. Sales from a magazine published in conjunction with the project will benefit the organization.

Under Lindberg’s leadership, Arts Alive Nassau brought Jeanne Robertson, American humorist and motivational speaker to the island. The event was a huge success, and Robertson will return in February 2022 for her second fundraiser for the organization.

When Jane married Bob, she inherited three sons, three daughters-in-law, and seven grandchildren. One son, Randy, and his wife, Kristen, moved to Fernandina in 2000 from California to work for Springer Controls. Randy is now the president of the company. All three of their children graduated from Nassau County schools.

Pets are big at the Lindberg house and include two Golden Retrievers, Duffy and Maggie May, and two rescue cats, Cleo and Sox.

A grateful community thanks Lindberg and her ever supportive husband, Bob, for their dedication to bringing arts of all kinds to the children of Nassau County. Their talent, energy, and dedication have given the community many memorial performances, with many more sure to come.