When

Date:  Thursday, August 21, 2025
Start Time:  7:00 pm
Continues until completed.

Where

St. Albert Place
5 St. Anne Street ↗

Accessibility Features:

What's Happening

This event is part of the Plaza Series. New in 2025:

• Bring your own chair or seat.
• Grab a spot as early as 6:30 p.m.; all shows start at 7 p.m.
• No tickets required.
• Beverages/snacks for purchase in the pay-to-enter licensed area.
  $10 entry (includes one alcoholic beverage)
  $6 entry (includes one non-alcoholic beverage and snack)

Folk and Blues Festival favourite Little Miss Higgins brings her hilarious bluesy tales, charming personality and killer vintage guitar tone to the Plaza stage. Her singing voice is magical in its delivery and range. Then, let the ivories take centre stage for Debra Power’s high-octane boogie-woogie and blues piano! These two women artists will have you clapping and laughing along to their rousing and sassy songs and stories all night long. 

Little Miss Higgins
From the Great Northern Plains, Little Miss Higgins struts and serenades her way onto any stage playing music brewed up in early country blues, jazz and folk. 

For over 20 years, she has performed, toured, and collaborated as a musician, as well as recorded and released 7 independent albums.  Her music and artwork have received many accolades, awards, and nomination,s including Western Canadian Music Awards, JUNOs, and Maple Blues Awards.   

Though music has taken the driver’s seat for most of her career, her most recent collaboration, One For Sorrow, Two For Joy, is a music-driven puppet play. Performed with co-creators Juanita Dawn and Jocelyn Mah, Higgins is thrilled to bring her love of theatre and music together to tell this heartwarming and whimsical tale of a woman living alone on the prairies in the early 1900s. 

Higgins makes the province of Manitoba her home with her partner and son. Though motherhood takes up most of her time these days, she continues to perform, write, paint, garden, and cultivate her creative spirit. 

Debra Power
Debra Power is an independent artist who has released 3 albums of original music: EVEN REDHEADS GET THE BLUES, THAT'S HOW I ROLL, and I'M NOT FROM CHICAGO to international acclaim and airplay. Debra was a two-time Semi-Finalist at the IBC - International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee, and in 2017, her song TEMPTATION made it into the ISC (International Songwriting Competition) finals, with three other original songs making it into the semi-finals. She's garnered two YYC awards (Calgary Music Awards) for Blues Album of the Year in 2016 and 2020, and two WCMA (Western Canadian Music Association) Blues Artist of the Year nominations. 

Debra's new album, I'M NOT FROM CHICAGO, released in Feb/22, features the late Harpdog Brown on his last studio recording, and Houston, Texas, 2018 IBC Band winner Keeshea Pratt. Her single release WHAT COLOUR IS LOVE (feat... Keeshea Pratt) with its profound message, was welcomed by DJs worldwide, and was posted on the International WIB (Women in Blues) page for Black History month. In the fall of 2022, Debra's album I'M NOT FROM CHICAGO was submitted by Grammy voter members into the first round Grammy ballot for Best Traditional Blues Album. 

She performed an International Showcase for The Galaxy Agency at B.B. King’s Blues Club on Beale Street in Memphis during the IBC in January 2023. That week also saw her album I'M NOT FROM CHICAGO become a top-five finalist for Best Self-Produced Album. Debra also received two nominations for Piano Player of the Year, in 2023 and 2024, from Toronto's Maple Blues Awards. 

Bring your own chair or seat. Grab a spot as early as 6:30 p.m.; all shows start at 7 p.m. No tickets required. There will be a pay-to-enter licensed area where alcoholic beverages or snacks can be purchased. Tickets for the licensed area will be $10, including an alcoholic beverage, and $6, including a non-alcoholic beverage and snack.