who wrote 11 of the 13� songs on her album, is also a member of the National Honor Society.

�My parents are both schoolteachers, and they instilled a love of education in me at an early age,� said Jarosz, whose father, Gary, is her government teacher at Wimberley High. Teachers get summers off, which has given her parents time to take their only child to bluegrass camps and festivals across the country during the past few years.

�One of the most impressive things about Sarah� and her parents is the effort they�ve made to keep the balance in her life, with her schoolwork such a priority,� Wimberley High principal Greg Bonewald said.

Jarosz is a finalist in the �Miss WHS� pageant, with the winner to be announced at Saturday�s senior prom,but she has to miss it. Her trio has a gig at the Old Settler�s Music Festival on Saturday afternoon, with a lot of visiting and jamming after that. Jarosz has played the bluegrass-flavored fest, which runs today� through Sunday at the Salt Lick Pavilion in Driftwood, the past eight years. It�s where she got her taste for bluegrass and fell under the wings of masters such as David Grisman, Abigail Washburn and Tim O�Brien.

But first she was a fan. As a fourth-grader making her first visit to Old Settler�s in 2001, Jarosz told Chris Thile, then of Nickel Creek, that she hoped to one day be good enough to play with him. �Let�s jam sometime,� Thile wrote in her program.

�And now Chris is all over my first