Some of Hermiston High School’s choral students will be taking a trip to Disneyland this spring, but they won’t just be enjoying the rides and sunshine. The group of 31 students will be working with Disney production teams and vocal coaches, as well as touring a major university and getting some choir lessons.

The students will head south the last week of March, during their spring break.

Choir director Jordan Bemrose-Rust said she has done this specific trip five times, either as a student or instructor.

While in California, the students will perform onstage at Disneyland and participate in a recording session in a studio.

“They will get the music, and they’ve never seen it before,” she said. “They’ll sight read it, and then the person there will rehearse it with them. Then they’ll record it, good, bad or ugly.”

Then, she said, the students will get to hear their music played back, over an animated film.

They will visit University of Southern California, where they will receive a clinic from the head of the choral department.

She said some other musicians who live in the area will also come and speak to the students.

“Some people I know who work there […] will talk about what it’s like to audition for Disney,” she said.

Onstage, they will sing music from a variety of genres including jazz and folk.

The performance will be on March 28, and Bemrose-Rust said they hope to live-stream it on their Facebook page.

The students have spent the last several months raising nearly $20,000 for the trip via 22 fundraisers.

“We’ve been busy,” said freshman William Kern.

Their largest fundraiser, which netted more than $5,000, was the DRIVE 4 UR School event, in which they partnered with Tom Denchel Ford. Denchel and Nick Kennedy from the dealership stopped by Hermiston High School to present the check to the choir students on Monday.