Now living in La Tuna, California she works as an interior designer and still returns to performing live, appearing on the PBS special "Milestones and Memories" and hosting wraparounds on many of the repeats for public television. 1 Early life, education, and growing up in AlabamaĮarly life, education, and growing up in Alabama īorn in Opelika, Alabama, and reared in Tuskegee, he later moved with his family to Fairhope, Alabama.He attended Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, where he played the saxophone and reeds ( Multireedist) with The Auburn Knights Orchestra Edwards would later try to complete his education at California State University, Los Angeles during the late-1980s while residing in Burbank. Out of school early from Auburn University (having played with The Auburn Knights Orchestra and singer Toni Tennille) he would play on the road with Richard Maltby and then with the Glenn Miller Orchestra before being drafted into the United States Army and stationed with the NORAD band in Colorado Springs, CO. While stationed at the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) during the 1960s, Dave Edwards would serve in the United States Army and play in the American/Canadian, joint armed serves NORAD Commanders Jazz Band alongside future Lawrence Welk Show musicians Richard Maloof and Johnny Zell. Stationed in Colorado Springs, this unit became one of the elite musical groups of the armed forces during the Cold War/ Vietnam era due to the plethora of talented, young musicians being drafted into military service. Edwards would first meet longtime musical associates Dave Wolpe, Warren Luening, Bob Payne, and Larry Ford while stationed at Colorado Springs.
He toured extensively with the NORAD musical groups to include appearances at Carnegie Hall (May 1966), the Hollywood Bowl and Disneyland (September 1966), Expo '67 - Montreal World's Fair, the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (August and September 1967), the CBS The Mike Douglas Show, the Today Show, and NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. The Lawrence Welk Show 1968-1979 Īfter being discharged from the Army, he moved to Los Angeles and joined the Lawrence Welk Show orchestra in early 1968.
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