Excellent turnout in Chipman for Little Miss Higgins

Close to 100 people turned out for Little Miss Higgins at the Chipman National Hall on November 11 as she and her band mates Foy Taylor and Joey Lorer played a variety of Rockabilly/country/folk/blues type songs inspired by real life situations.

Throughout the evening, Higgins (whose first name is Jolene) bit by bit revealed her background and the inspirations for the songs she performed.

Born in Brooks, Alberta, she and her family moved to Kansas before eventually settling down in the community of Nokomis, Saskatchewan. Her first song of the night was The Tornado Song (from her years of living in Kansas), followed by Velvet Barley Bed and There’s a Train A Comin’ Down, from her experience of living in Nokomis, also known as Junction City.

Higgins recalled how she met her partner and guitar player Foy Taylor in Regina in 2003 and the pair decided to tour the western Canadian provinces.

One of their stops was at the Radville Hotel and Steak Pit in Saskatchewan, which she described as being “a hundred years old and had gone through many re-developments that stopped in the 1970s.”

“We set up between the pool table and the hot nut machine at the Radville Hotel and Steak Pit, where you get to cook your own steaks. We had so much fun we had to write a song about it,” she quipped.

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Another tour took Little Miss Higgins to the tiny community of Picture Butte in Southern Alberta, where she said, “the population was six or nine, depending upon who you talked to.” By the time the concert started, the place was packed and every year the band goes back to play there. When the hotel owner was getting married, recalled Higgins, she was asked to play a song and perform it onstage, and wrote a composition called My Love.

“As I started playing the song and the wedding party came in, everybody started hooting and hollering and nobody heard a note,” said Higgins, who performed it for the Chipman crowd.

One of her last songs for the evening was a tune called Bargain! Shop Panties, and she successfully coaxed the audience into becoming the ‘Panty Choir’ by singing that line throughout the performance.

She also persuaded members of the audience to get up and dance before the band sang their encore song, titled In The Dark.

Little Miss Higgins has recorded four albums, of which the last one, Across the Prairies, picked up an award for Best Blues Album. The band will also tour the United Kingdom this year.

More musical entertainment is coming up in Chipman this November as country singer and Juno award winner Gary Fjellgaard will be performing at the Chipman National Hall on November 24.