He treated me like a musician and I really appreciated it. “Here was this little girl and (mandolin legend) Mike Marshall was my teacher. She attended the Rockygrass Academy in Lyons - the adult part, not the kids’ camp. “I always felt that to learn directly from my heroes was crucial,” Jarosz, now 28, says in a recent interview. She sounded more like fiddler Marc O’Connor, mandolinist Chris Thile and other teenage phenoms I’ve interviewed. She did not talk like a precocious child, another cute talented picker who would fade from the business with time. She delivered a blistering rendition of Bill Monroe’s “Blue Moon of Kentucky” as a side-of-stage tweener between the major acts.Īmazed at her intensity, I tracked her down backstage and met her parents.
Sarah Jarosz always stood out in a crowd even when she was a tiny 12-year-old kid standing on the big stage at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival.
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