Gary Carnivele

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Musician John Beland Talks About His Impressive Musical Resume & His Move to Sonoma County Where His Career Thrives

Gary Carnivele:  Talk about your early years.  Were your parents musical?  Was music an important aspect of your home? John Beland:  My parents loved music and my father loved dancing. Music always played at our house either on the radio or television. GC:  At what point did you first pick up an instrument and did you realize that you would devote your life to performing? JB:  I received my first guitar when I was six. It was a Davy Crockett guitar, but it was real, not just a toy. By the time I was 12, I was obsessed with not only the guitar but with music […]

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Frameline 46 Interview: “Maybe Someday” Director Michelle Ehlen

Maybe Someday will have its first in-person screening at the Frameline Film Festival June 24th at the Castro Theatre. An LGBTQ feature film highlighting different aspects of love and heartbreak, Maybe Someday is a nostalgic and moving journey written and directed by Michelle Ehlen. The film is Ehlen’s fifth feature and first dramedy, her prior films most notably being the first lesbian comedy trilogy – Butch Jamie, Heterosexual Jill, and S&M Sally. Maybe Someday stars Ehlen along with Shaela Cook from Heterosexual Jill and S&M Sally, and Charlie Steers. The story follows the character of Jay (Ehlen), a non-binary photographer in her 40s, battling a mixture of denial and depression as she attempts to move across the country in […]