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Bianca Ferland was deeply concerned about her daughter, Tiffany. The three-year-old boy, like most three-year-olds, was a happy little pre-pandemic, filled with smiles, laughter, and light. But when schools closed, social distancing became the norm, and families withdrew themselves, Tiffany began to struggle.
He didn’t understand why he couldn’t see his little friends and couldn’t venture beyond the balcony of his parents’ second-floor apartment in Sudbury, Ontario. She was terrified of the “bad germs” while the nights for Ferland and her husband, Steve McArthur, became epic, talking to their daughter about her latest nightmare and reassuring her to fall asleep.
“Tiffany was having a really hard time and she was taking a toll on us all,” says Ferland. “So I posted something on Facebook about it and a lot of people left me kind messages, but Kass was the only one who came up to ask if I could help.”
“Kass” is Kassie Bazinet, a friend of the Ferland family and a 22-year-old communications student at Laurentian University. Before COVID-19, Bazinet, or “Baz” for short, studied, drove a disabled bus 30 hours a week, and in his spare time worked on his music. She has been performing with her father, Rod, a daytime social worker and passionate musician, for as long as she can remember. She plays a bad guitar, has a rising voice, and had an idea on how she could help Ferland with Tiffany.
Tiffany loves princesses, nothing more than Elsa and Anna from the hit Disney animated film Frozen. For those with no girls in their lives, the film’s plot summary, a sequel released in 2019, goes like this: Elsa and Anna are sisters and princesses. Elsa is older, with magical powers born from ice, and has the whirlwind of snow, winter, ice castles, and talking snowmen at her fingertips. Anna is the happy and carefree younger sister.
Unfortunately, when the couple is nothing but little, Elsa accidentally hits Anna with her magic, almost killing her. The doors of the palace are closed. Elsa stops playing with Anna, and the princesses are more or less isolated from each other within the palace walls. A lot more happens after that, for example, the opening of the palace gates, the sum of which made Frozen the highest grossing animated film in history, and a two-time Oscar winner, including the song sung by Elsa. and known by heart to parents with children of a certain age worldwide, “Let it Go”.
Bazinet, herself a Frozen fan, offered to steal a Princess Anna costume, put on a wig and come to the parking lot under Tiffany’s balcony to put on some songs and say a few words.
“I planned a complete script that explained how the doors could be closed at this time, and that Princess Elsa and I had lived a long time with the doors closed, but that she believed they would open again, and if Tiffany believed that they would open at again, they would, “says Bazinet.
Ferland says: “I had no idea that Kass was going to appear in the character. I was totally impressed. “
Tiffany’s nightmares are gone. When a princess speaks, a loving princess listens.
Ferland posted a video of Bazinet’s parking performance on April 18 on Facebook. It was shared and, thus, an accidental star was born, a princess with an ideal message for the era of the pandemic.
“Parents started texting me saying their children were sad, and I just jumped on it,” says Bazinet. “I started saying to people:” I will come. I will sing. I will talk with them “.
A natural extrovert, Bazinet lives alone. COVID-19 cost him his job, while all of his classes moved online. Now she performs 10 concerts a day at car tickets and parking lots across Sudbury, and she is satisfied. It takes her two hours to get ready every morning, makeup is the hardest part of being a princess, before hitting the road in her gray SUV with a speaker and wireless microphone she lent to her dad.
Children will generally have one of two reactions when seeing Elsa (or Anna) in front of their house: shock or questions like, why don’t you use your magic powers? “I tell them since the heat in Sudbury finished that I don’t want to use my magic and make everyone cool again,” says Bazinet, laughing.
Sudbury City Council has recognized Bazinet’s efforts; Mayor Brian Bigger spoke to him personally on the phone.
“Kassie has picked up something that is so important to young families,” he says. “If you watch videos of Kassie, the kids are singing. Hope increases. She has made many people happy. “
Next week, unfortunately, Bazinet is temporarily curtailing his performances due to a final exam. But he promises that the princesses will return once they finish their studies, though for how long he can’t say.
“I don’t know if I’m going to continue doing this after the pandemic ends,” says Bazinet. “I really didn’t expect to make a big difference.”