Singer, songwriter and pianist Adey “Adey Belle” Garner

By TCTV Founder Rosalyn Fay

It’s not often you meet a native Montanan in California—so when my family and I met Adey Garner at Cafe Gratitude in Berkeley—I felt an instant kinship with her. “Get out!” she exclaimed as she slapped the table and twirled around. “I’m from Kalispell!” Our mutual excitement about this otherwise silly similarity put us immediately at ease. As she continued to speak openly and emphatically about her new life in the Bay Area and her musical ambitions, I became aware that I was in the midst of someone very special.

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Interpretive Belly Dancer Frederique “The Lady Fred” Johnston

By TCTV Founder Rosalyn Fay

Filming my “belly dance” teacher, Frederique “The Lady Fred” Johnston was a long standing desire of mine having taken her classes for nearly 4 years. Frederique is a very interesting woman! One rarely gets the chance to see so many different aspects of someone’s personality at a time. One minute Frederique is very articulately describing a dance move, and the next she is breaking into hysterical laughter at an unintended pun she made or funny thought she had (upon which she’ll often pause class to tell a story).   Read more…