When Garbanzo and Chickpea first met, they were called Roger Cuthbertson and Jo Schubert. On their first date, they went for a stroll in the moonlight, and Jo wrote a love song for Roger called "The Other Side of the Moon". They played and sang the song together at their wedding. That was one of their first performances together.

Pretty soon, Roger and Jo found some other people who liked to play folk music – Appalachian string band style- and they joined a few bands. But when they weren’t in bands, Roger and Jo played with each other, learned together, and performed music together. Each band experience and event they played added to their competence as musicians and their musical repertoire.

Roger was also teaching Geography to 7^th graders while Jo was teaching Early Childhood Family Education.

Roger had a song about beans that he sang to each of his students, inventing a unique verse to rhyme with each name. Pretty soon Jo and Roger started to sing the "Buttered Bean" name rhyming song to children in the audience when they were performing. That was really the birth of "String Beans".

Roger became "Garbanzo", and Jo became "Chick Pea". Since then they’ve taken their "act" lots of places, especially where families like to be. They truly enjoy interacting with people of all ages when they perform. The "Buttered Beans" rhyming name song gives them a vehicle for doing that. It seems as though all of their interests came together in "String Beans" – their ability to perform music, their interest in children as teachers and their desire to both give and to receive from the people they entertain.