Belton Center for the Arts will Host Jane Jenkins Herlong

Valentines Evening, February 14, 2022

6:30pm Wine/Beer & light appetizer’s -Entertainment at 7:00

Listening Room on Main

$25/person or $45/couple.  Call 338-8556 for reservations.

Jane Jenkins Herlong is a Sirius XM Humorist, international best-selling/award-winning author, professional singer, recording artist and award-winning professional speaker.

A recent inductee into the prestigious Speaker Hall of Fame, Jane is one of the 232 men and women to be awarded this honor including former U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Colin L. Powell. Jane also has achieved the distinction of Certified Speaker Professional by the National Speakers Association.

Jane’s is the author of five best-selling/award-winning books: “Rhinestones on My Flip-Flops: Choosing Extravagant Joy in the Midst of Everyday Mess-ups,” (Hachette Book Group), “Bury Me with My Pearls” (Gold Medal in the Illumination Book Awards and Christian Small Publisher Book of the Year), “Bare Feet to High Heels,” and “What Ta-Tas Teach Us,” (breast cancer awareness). Jane fifth book, “Sweet Tea Secrets from the Deep-Fried South,” is published by Tyndale and will be released Spring of 2022.

Her award-winning singing and humor is featured on Sirius XM Radio, Pandora Internet Radio, Spotify, iTunes and Amazon Alexa.  Her comedy is heard along with Jeff Foxworthy,

Ray Romano and Jerry Seinfeld.  She criss‐crosses the country sharing her sweet tea wisdom and Southern Fried humor. Jane has also spoken in New Zealand and Germany and is fluent in four languages: English, Southern, Northern and Lowcountry Gullah (gul‐la).

Jane’s keen sense of humor evolved from being labeled Dyslexic and constantly told, “You can’t do that!”  Jane changed the word NO to NEXT and the rest is what dreams are made of. Audiences learn the healing power of humor when handling negative people and circumstances for more productive, positive living. Jane’s life stories and humor leave audiences with the same message she lives- “prove people wrong and laugh while living your dreams.”

With a sense of humor and smart work, Jane traveled from the rows of her family farm to the runway of the Miss America Pageant all the way to performing at Radio City Music Hall. She graduated from college with the highest honors voted by her peers and continued on to graduate school. Her successes continued to pile up from there. Today, Jane travels around the world featured at speaking events in New Zealand and Germany as well as several venues around the United States. Jane has also had the pleasure of sharing the stage with several noteworthy people such as Dr. Charles Stanley, General Colin Powell, Rudolph Giuliana and the late Charlton Heston.

Simon & Shuster Publishing House says of Jane:  Jane Jenkins Herlong’s blend of Southern humor and folksy wisdom is just priceless.  She deserves to be right up there with Anita Renfroe and Chonda Pierce- in some ways, she’s even better. The more suburban and blander our culture gets, the more precious genuine Southern culture like this becomes.