In the News
Touring The World: Visit 14 countries through 'Love One Love All' program at UNM
- Santa Fe New Mexican, February 10, 2011
Father Provides His Sons With Globe-Trotting Experience
- Journal Santa Fe, August 4, 2007
Dave Garcia
He maintained life-long friendships with many people from numerous countries. It is due, in large part, to the generosity of these friends over the years that he enjoyed sharing the beauty and diversity of the world with his own family. His four children began traveling when the oldest was six years old. Since then, they have been to twenty six countries including: China, Namibia, Mozambique, The Philippines, and a three month journey as a family around the world.
Dave has seen how travel enriched his own children's lives. This experience has provided the impetus for his dream to facilitate such trips for American students. Visiting countries and discovering other cultures during this time provides a broader view of all that humanity has to offer. Physical and mental resilience typically are strong at this age. Combining this strength with an open mind, an open heart, and a sense of humor, the young American traveler easily learns to withstand the challenges and rigors of visiting places where true diversity is at its most colorful and intense.
Since Dave first visited a foreign country at the age of seventeen, he has seen how people around the world share many of the same dreams and desires that Americans hold dear: to help their fellow man, to make one feel at home in an unfamiliar setting, and to share the joy, pride, and graciousness of their own culture.
Dave is committed to making LoveOne...LoveAll® a reality for the many bright, inquisitive young American students who deserve the opportunity to see for themselves the world as it truly is ~ and as it may become ~ while they forge their own life-long friendships and discover their own destiny.
Cabot Wade
A staff songwriter and performer for the international singing group, "Up With People," Mr. Wade toured the United States and twelve countries with the group. After leaving "Up With People" Mr. Wade formed The Smith Wade Band, which still packs houses today with their incredible repertoire of originals and classic rock. The band will celebrate their fortieth anniversary this year.
Mr. Wade believes in giving back to the community. A number of charitable organizations have benefited from the music by The Smith Wade Band or Mr. Wade. Performances for hospice, nonprofits, and the hospital auxiliary have helped raise millions of dollars over the years.
Mr. Wade continued his passion for writing lyrics and melodies. He wrote a twenty song rock opera, "Artie King & The Circle T Gang" and went on to record a solo album, "Cock of the Walk." He also recorded three albums with The Smith Wade Band. Two albums of original works were produced by Dave MacKay’s "June Productions of England." Mr. Wade is currently writing for another solo album.
Mr. Wade taught middle school choirs for Williamsburg-James City County Schools, Williamsburg. He has taught private lessons for guitar and theory most of his career.
In 2005 Mr. Wade joined Prosody Creative Services where he was Musical Director and Company Manager for "America’s 400th Anniversary," Jamestown, Virginia. He sang, co-wrote lyrics and music for the commemorative album, "Anniversary Voices." Mr. Wade supervised the high-energy musical group, accompanied by "The Godspeed Sail" from Alexandria, Virginia to Newport, Rhode Island to commemorate the 400th Anniversary of the founding of the Jamestown Colony in 1607.
Mr. Wade has always dreamed big. He initiated the idea of "A Song For The World" production in Branson, Missouri in 2009. He was artistic director and performer for the more than one hundred cast production.
Presently, Mr. Wade is producer for Dave Garcia’s American College Musical Production. He is thrilled to be writing and producing for its new show, "Love One…Love All."
Mr. Wade is father to three adult children, Jason, Jonathan and Carrie Wade. He and his wife, Gerri, live in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
Eugene Roach
