Nokomis , Saskatchewan based jazz/ blues musician Little Miss Higgins is looking forward to being back on the road after a few weeks off.
“Yeah it was good to have some time off , but now we’re getting started with the new year,” said Little Miss Higgins, aka Jolene Higgins on the way to play the Tongue on the Post Festival in Medicine Hat. They played their their own show there as well as a couple workshops.
She, guitarist Foy Taylor and bassist Joey Lorer will be returning to Lethbridge, Feb. 2 to play the Slice.
“We’ll be playing lots of songs from ‘Across the Plains’ as well as from the other album,” she said.
“I’m looking forward to the good pizza and we’re looking forward to seeing a lot of our friends there,” she said adding they aren’t working on new material yet.
“We feel this album still has legs. It’s still relatively fresh, it just came out last spring. So we’ve still got time to work on new stuff,” she said adding she has been other with other creative projects.
“I was writing songs for a musical. So that was alot of fun. And there have been a lot of other creative projects,” she continued adding she is looking forward to playing again.
“We have a couple workshops at Tongue on The Post then we’re going to Canmore and Edmonton before we come to Lethbridge,” she enthused adding she and Taylor will be off to the United Kingdom in the Spring.
“Foy and I have a tour lined up there for a month. It will be our first time, then we’ll come home and plant the garden,” she said adding Little Miss Higgins has a following over there already thanks to the power of the Internet.
