People who have to watch in 2025: Nancy Halverson has a constant growth in Levitica at Falls - Argus Leader

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a short series of stories by Sioux Falls residents will want to pay attention, as city leaders help to form a conversation, politics and community in 2025 and after.

The following year, Levitici at Falls will grow from an intimate group of the lawn to a 7,000 square feet music place, all from a crane of a stick in Nancy Halverson’s hand.

She has made all this look so effortless.

Halverson is the President and CEO of Levitt at Falls, a non -profit organization that provides outdoor music to communities across the country. Our leftist has been in the city since 2019, immediately welcoming herbaceous bun at the entrance of Phillips to the waterfalls, where passers -by and tourists and neighborhood companies hear the echo of the music outside and before they understand it, swing on the grass until the last song in Sunset.

And probably not even a genre they would like.

This is the grace of Halverson, an unpretentious businesswoman who, throughout the year, buds throughout the city and region to raise money so that he can book bands and residents, be able to enjoy free concerts on warm summer nights.

And many of them are upcoming performers-diverse in their age, nationality, style and sound. It is like a surprise and enjoyment of Leviticus, with food and drink and companionship.

That’s all Halverson, but you don’t even care if you know this. She just wants you to come and hang in your backyard.

“All I know is that she wants to make a change,” says Laura Mulian, Director of Levitic’s volunteer commitment. – And she does it. We could not ask for a better leader than Nancy. “

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Halverson and her husband Bruce first live in Siu waterfall from 2000 to 2006, when Bruce was president at the University of Augustana (Augustana College at that time).

During those few years, Nancy Halverson was the hostess with the most.

“As a” first lady, “I had thousands of people through my house,” she said.

But she loved him. Originally at the Musical Theater and as a singer in many bands, she welcomes the scholarship, which will later serve her future career in Leviticus.

After her husband’s term in Agi, the couple and their son moved to South Carolina for a while, where Nancy Halverson ruled a children’s museum before returning to Siu Falls to be more close to the family.

It was then that a dear friend of Halverson, the former South Dakota politician and local photographer Tom Dempter, eavesdrop for her to rule Leviticus. The concept of opening here was his idea, says Halverson.

“I remember when we lived here before, I found this area of the city as a lost opportunity,” she says of the growing Phillips to the waterfall today. There are now apartments, restaurants and commercial spaces at Cascade at Falls Park, west of Levitt, and a hotel, more restaurants and office spaces in Steel District, right north of the Shell group. The River Greenway and Lloyd Landing project continues to develop, and Jacobsen Plaza in the same area is underway.

Lloyd Companies, which owns a nearby steel area and timber exchange, once credits Levitt as the reason they even managed to dream of expanding, Halverson recalls.

“I just love that the arts were so much of this community growth,” she says.

Year -round programming includes bearings, mixers, volunteering

In the jump, Falls Levitz hosted 30 free summer concerts in his first year. It was a wild success. Then the pandemic struck and they had to get creatively – the signing of Halverson.

“As early as 2019, Nancy made our employees sit down and create values to help lead our decisions,” Mulian said. “With these guidelines, we were able to create and provide new programs that have reached the grass concerts.”

Do you think their summer is busy? This is the party after all the work, the cold drink after a long day.

Today, their out-of-season programming includes professional development for musicians-such as taxes or faucets on Monday night, so that musicians get to know-summer camps for children or volunteering in non-profit organizations in the area. They also made concerts on Leviticus in your neighborhood – as hosting the performances in the Good Samaritan Society parking for residents or bringing musicians to perform at Sanford’s Cancer Center or Avera’s behavioral health.

It was not enough Halverson to invite thousands of guests to her – over 100,000 people appeared last year – so she carries the “healing power of music” to hundreds of them.

That is why Levitic grows – both physically around the tape and in the community today.

Three large gifts to name round a $ 5 million expansion plan

Last month, Levitt from Falls announced a breakthrough in his $ 5 million expansion campaign, confirming three large gifts for name and program spaces, second stage, more storage of equipment, as well as changing rooms and green Contractor room.

The Sweetman Atrium, the biggest part of the expansion, will be baptized by Dick and Katie Sweetman, who have endowed on Levitic through the Community Foundation of the Siou Falls. The Second Stage of the Lust Family for additional educational programming will be indicated on behalf of a gift from John and Janel Lust.

The Dakota State University Foundation also serves as a donor and will name a future programming space, and all other funds will be used to buy more lighting, sound and video equipment.

Construction will start on September 1st.

“Levite is an important part of our city,” said the parks and the recreation director Sioux Falls Don Kearney, who partnered with Halverson, her advice and her powerful five. “We are excited to work with Levitici at the waterfalls to complete the shell expansion and look forward to seeing the new programming opportunities.”

How does it do it?

When Argus’s leader first met with Halverson in her sticky office in December-scheduled inside the Gurley building, but soon in the tape after the expansion ended, she excitedly pointed his poster in the style of the scientific project, almost covered With thumb photos of groups she had already booked for this coming season, each under their planned date of performance and with only a few introductory slots.

“The goal is a diverse audience, so I want as much stage variety as I can get,” she says. “I’m looking for artists who represent our community, so any child who comes out on stage can look up and see someone who looks and sounds like them.

“ThatShe emphasizes “is how we will build a community through music” by nodding on the mission of Levitic across the country.

Overall, this summer will have over 50 concerts, every Thursday to Saturday, starting on May 23. The composition will be announced this spring.

Halverson says to completely fill in her loyal poster board – “I’m a visual person!” – She must always build relationships with agents and navigate lively schedules for touring many groups at a time. She is looking for “great musical and pure fun.”

The Shaun Johnson band is always a hit every summer, according to her, as is Brule and their Lakota Annual Music Festival, all my relatives. Halverson is planning a new festival this year with ADA, with the participation of performers of all abilities and several other surprising shows.

When she does not work on a network, Halverson writes grants, books hotels for the artists and trucks for the grass, writes annual reports, volunteer recruitment, brochure drawing, and maybe even knit a sweater or two at home. But an agent or associate ring is always close.

“My goal is always that we have to be the duck on top of the water,” she says. “No one should see our feet.”

But we, as music lovers, are deleted with her good grace and we are grateful for the duck.

“Although our Levitic board has had high aspirations, Leviticus is now 10 times the crazy successful than our most fun dreams,” says Dempster, who serves the board when Levitt shows the scene for the first time. “So much of this success is Nancy. She herself is superstar-piercing, passionate and completely unblown.

“When I go to Levit’s concerts, I often find myself suffocating tears.”

People who have to watch in 2025: Nancy Halverson has a constant growth in Levitica at Falls – Argus Leader

Return to Sioux Falls for the arts

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Three large gifts to name round a $ 5 million expansion plan

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