"I've had some amazing summers. For the third straight year, I'm singing, dancing and even yodeling as one of the Burning Hills Singers in the Medora Musical."

-Levi Andrist '07

Making It In Medora
By Levi Andrist '07

I've had some amazing summers. For the third straight year, I'm singing, dancing and even yodeling as one of the Burning Hills Singers in the Medora Musical. For 94 nights in a row, we put on a lively, patriotic show in an outdoor amphitheatre.

It's a chest pounder performing in Medora, N.D., because the musical is such a tradition. Many people return every year and they expect to see a good show. You can't ever be on cruise control. You need to give it everything you've got each night. But when you work with a high-energy cast like this, it's pretty easy to have fun doing a show, especially when there are 2,000 smiling faces in the audience looking back at you.

My Medora performances are an exciting compliment to my music studies at Concordia. I'm considering careers in law or ministry, but I'm majoring in music, with a political science minor, and heavily involved with music ensembles on campus. I'm a member of The Concordia Choir and the Vocal Jazz Ensemble, a cantor for campus worship services, and I take organ lessons, attended an opera workshop and even direct a youth choir at a Fargo church.

My professors, the campus pastors and the Lilly Call to Serve Project staff have supported me in creating my own niche at Concordia, where I can both study and perform music, and explore my interest in politics and our government structure. And a few summers at Medora don't hurt either!