album!� said Jarosz, who also plays banjo, guitar and piano. �How unbelievable is that?�

Jarosz was signed to a record deal by Paczosa, a vice president at Sugar Hill Records,� after her performance at Colorado�s prestigious Telluride Festival in 2007. Recording sessions for the debut began during spring break 2008. Paczosa decided to give Jarosz a co-producer credit, rare for a 17-year-old singer, when it became clear she wanted to be involved in every aspect of the project. As multi-instrumentalist O�Brien wrote in the liner notes to the upcoming album by his prot�g�, �Sarah is that rare, self-possessed teenager � She knows what she�s about and is ready to get out there and make her mark.�

Jarosz said it was a goal to record her first album before graduating highschool, to sum up this early chapter of her life. Some tracks on �Song Up In Her Head� � the meditative �Edge of a Dream� and a cover of the Decemberists� �Shankill Butchers� � give a glimpse of the new singer-songwriter direction in which she is heading. But bluegrass is deep in her heart.

Mary Jarosz, who teaches pre-kindergarten at St. Stephen�s Episcopal School in Wimberley, said all the good things that have come to her daughter have come naturally, without any parental pushing. Even the career-changing set at Telluride smacked of kismet, as the promoter had one last slot to fill and remembered Sarah Jarosz belting out �Blue Moon of Kentucky� at a bluegrass camp a couple years earlier. �When she was 2 years old, she was singing