By day, Mindy is a medical business administrator who also volunteers for many community projects, including serving on the Fort Collins Golf Board, and assisting with several charity events, but by night she hangs up her serious hat and takes on the role of wife, friend, golfer, actor, and singer. She has been performing since the age of five.
One of her earliest performance memories is standing on a stepstool to sing specials in church. Her musical performance history includes being a member of her high school concert choir, church choirs, a song-and-dance group (the Peacemakers), a girls' quartet (The Assurance of Grace), a mixed trio (The Terry Bowdan Trio), and the Walt Disney World Holiday Choir. She is known for her diversity in performance styles, which includes country, jazz, blues, spiritual, and contemporary.
Her acting experiences have included playing a few leading roles and a vast variety of supporting roles in both contemporary and spiritual dramas and skits. She loves to serve and her life's goal is to make a difference, and to have a positive impact on the world around her. Her slogan for life is simply that God gives us the tools to make our lives work, it is how well we use these tools that determines our outcome.
Dave grew up with music. He still has fond memories of hearing his mother singing some of the great songs from the Big Band era as she chasséd from room to room doing housework (of course, he didn't even know what the Big Band era was when he first heard those songs).
He has been performing music for quite some time now--his first singing solo in front of a crowd was a Christmas song when he was in first grade. In elementary school, he participated in the usual music classes; in high school, he was in choir, orchestral band, marching band, swing choir, and the jazz band; in church, he was in the choir as well as a men's quartet during his high-school years, then later was the music director and keyboardist at a bilingual church in Loveland and, more recently, in one of the praise teams at Timberline Church, where he played guitar, bass guitar, and drums (though not all at the same time). In the '70s, he was in a bluegrass/country band that performed in the Fort Collins area. He has been singing solo and in groups in the Encore! Encore! shows, Front Range Music Theatre, and several other theatrical groups for many years.
When he's not singing, Dave's "day jobs" are graphic design and publishing--on paper, on the web, and in video--and being a dance instructor, in which he teaches Lindy Hop, Jitterbug, Charleston, Salsa, Cha-Cha, Waltz, and more.