Cute, Rick, so far eveybody's been "clean", so I guess I'll stick with the trend:-) Sorry to disappoint anyone! Did get 'em all in here, though, didn't ya? Hehehe

Really, honest to goodness, first time, was I think as concert mistress in grade school, about 11 yrs. old, I think I had a solo on the violin of Silent Night; then that same year, the quartet I was first chair in played the same song LIVE on the one and only television station in Western Colorado! I think I was too young and too busy being a bossy leader (teacher's pet) of the other players to be too nervous. The nervousness came many yrs. later when my brother and I performed a piano/violin arrangement of Ave Maria at a Unity church in Grand Junction, Colo. I shook so much, from my knees on up it sounded as though I was playing vibrato the whole time!

Now, I love to get up and perform, just don't do it very often. Get really flushed and hot, initially, then calm right down. It's just (imagine Carly Simon singing here) Anticipation!

Thanks, Rick, this is gonna be a fun one!

Love ya,

kat