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Check-out the calendar for this year's festivals. It would be great to catch-up with you at an outside stage somewhere in Canada this summer!

Thanks to everyone who voted for the Indies. The news is out but for those who don't know, we won for best Blues act for the 8th Annual Indies held in Toronto on March 8th during Canadian Music Week!

Here's a review for Junction City from Exclaim Magazine, Canada's Music Authority (November 2007):

Thanks to Exclaim and David for their support and rave reviews!

By David Barnard

There’s something in the water out in Junction City, known now as Nokomis, Saskatchewan. How else to explain the phenomenon of Jolene Higgins, Little Miss to you? With Junction City, her second CD, she’s become an exciting old-time traditional blues/jazz practitioner. The majority of the songs are from her pen, although you’d be forgiven for assuming the entire set was written more than 60 years ago. Songs like “The Dirty Old Tractor Song,” with its unique double-entendre, or “In the Middle of Nowhere,” a tribute steeped in living tradition about Higgins’ adopted home, which once was an important CN and CP railway line stop. Higgins possesses an expressive vocal style and like one of her inspirations, Memphis Minnie, she plays a mean, swinging guitar too. Ably supported by musical life partner Foy Taylor on guitar and various friends on mandolin, string bass, clarinet and subdues drums, this is a superb recording.

Here's a great another great quote!

"Little Miss Higgins is a fresh and welcome addition to the Canadian blues scene. I love her selection of material, old school vintage sound and her enthusiasm. She has the respect of and holds her own with veterans twice her age. And I love that she's based out of Nokomis, Saskatchewan.”

-Holger Petersen (CBC Radio)