We have done more than 10,000 programs in schools and we have gone all the way from sheer terror through confidence and enjoyment to boredom. Here's our theory:

At first, we were scared that we might do something wrong like messing up the words or chords, playing out of tune or falling off the stage. After a sufficient number of performances, we had actually done everything we could think of that could go wrong. We were never struck by lightning, we never had anything thrown at us, and we were never swallowed up by a suddenly appearing hole in the earth. In fact, nothing bad happened to us. In fact, as pointed out above, most of our screw ups weren't even noticed by anyone except us.

When we finally realized that, performing became fun.

Bev and Jerry