Wade Westin Music Festival

Annual Wade Westin Music Festival features cast and band members of the Medora Musical plus talented musicians from cross North Dakota.

The festival pays tribute to the life of former Burning Hills Singer and previous host of the Medora Musical, Wade Westin.

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Sunday, September 6

Town Square Patio

FREE

Special Guests

Burning Hills Singers

12:00 pm

The stars of the Medora Musical take the stage downtown. They’ll sing country, pop, and rock songs. Stop by to dance, grab an ice cream or burger, and get to know the Burning Hills Singers away from the big stage.

Misti Koop

1:00 pm

Fan favorite and former Burning Hills Singer (2012, 2014-2019), our very own Grand Forks native, is back in Medora! Catch her at the Town Square Patio for the festival fun or at the Andrist Stage with her kid’s show Mistified.

Jessie Veeder

2:00 pm

Jessie Veeder writes and sings about the badlands of Western North Dakota where she grew up and is now working raising kids and cattle as the fourth generation on her family’s cattle ranch. Veeder released her first original album at sixteen and among her five original albums that span a twenty-plus career as a working and touring musician lie unique and interestingly beautiful vocals, rootsy instrumentation and raw lyrics that write the story of the working men and women in the small towns, ranches and oil fields of rural America. J

The Needmores

3:00 pm

Reoccurring guests from last year, John Lardinois and Brent Voigt, now hold down their own set! Brent’s “in-the-pocket” bass riffs and smoked honey vocals are the perfect palette for John’s fingerpicking, blazingly sweet, lead-guitar solos on whichever guitar he decides to play; acoustic, electric, or steel.

The Great American Folk Show

4:00 pm

Join Grand Forks native, Tom Brosseau to hear songs from the Great American Songbook with great stories sprinkled in. Tom comes from a working family with a musical background. His grandmother taught him the acoustic guitar while he was in grade school. Since then he has toured Japan, Canada, Portugal, Iceland, Australia; performed in bars, backyards and grand halls.