Medical Lake musician Nick Isherwood receives prestigious scholarship

MONTEREY, CALIF. — Former Medical Lake standout musician Nick Isherwood was recently named the 23rd recipient of the Jimmy Lyons Scholarship, a four-year, full ride scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass., at the 2019 Monterey Jazz Festival, where he performed with faculty saxophonist George Garzone and the Berklee group the Berklee Global Jazz Ambassadors, according to a Berklee press release.

Isherwood is the first bassist to be selected in the scholarship’s history.

“I feel incredibly grateful and honored to have been chosen for the Jimmy Lyons Scholarship,” Isherwood w...