Nancy and Ann Wilson Carry ‘These Dreams’ Through Heart’s 2025 Return to Edmonton

When Heart performed “These Dreams” at Rogers Place in Edmonton on March 21, 2025, the song carried the familiarity of a longtime concert favorite. Nancy Wilson’s lead vocal gave the ballad its recognizable center, with Ann beside her as part of the musical partnership that has shaped Heart for decades. The audience recording captures a reflective moment during the band’s Royal Flush Tour.

The song offers a useful reminder that the sisters bring different voices to Heart. Ann is closely associated with the band’s most forceful lead vocals, while “These Dreams” is one of Nancy’s signature performances. Paying attention to that distinction lets the listener appreciate the lead line and the surrounding support on their own terms.

Written by Bernie Taupin and Martin Page, “These Dreams” appeared on Heart’s self-titled 1985 album and became a US number-one single in 1986. Its floating melody and reflective images offered a gentler side of a band also known for harder rock. The song continues to invite a quieter kind of attention in concert.

In Edmonton, the appeal lies in phrasing and connection rather than a display of physical energy. Nancy lets the melody move at an unhurried pace, while the band gives the vocal room. Familiar lines can take on new feeling when sung by musicians who have lived with them for many years.

Heart’s return to touring followed Ann’s cancer treatment in 2024. Her seated performances in 2025 led some fans to connect the wheelchair directly to that illness, but Ann explained that she had broken her elbow before the tour. Keeping those events distinct gives a more accurate account of the determination involved in returning to the stage.

For longtime listeners, the return also brought a familiar bond back into view. Nancy and Ann have built a repertoire broad enough to include both forceful rock and more reflective songs. “These Dreams” allows the quieter side of that partnership to come forward. The audience recording below documents the Edmonton performance in the middle of the band’s 2025 return to the road.

The recording preserves an audience view rather than a studio production. That perspective places the voices within a real concert setting, with the small changes of tone and timing that make a familiar song feel present. It also allows the listener to hear the partnership without reducing the performance to a story about age or health.

For a separate live version of “These Dreams,” Heart’s Alive in Seattle recording looks back to the Paramount Theatre in August 2002. The official video offers another point in the song’s concert history, showing how its melody and Nancy’s place at the microphone have remained central across the years.

Those two performances belong to different stages of Heart’s working life. The comparison brings attention to continuity as well as change: the recognizable tune, the singer who carries it, and the choices that give individual phrases their character. Neither recording needs to reproduce the other to preserve the song’s appeal.

A different appearance, on The Howard Stern Show, finds the sisters performing Led Zeppelin’s “Going to California.” Ann takes the lead in that acoustic setting, with Nancy’s playing helping shape the arrangement. It provides a companion view of their quieter musical instincts from another event.

“These Dreams” remains the center of the Edmonton moment. Its reflective character gives both the performers and their audience room to bring decades of memories to it. What lasts is the connection between the sisters, the melody, and the listeners who still find something personal inside the song.