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.





