East Dallas resident Heather Paterson recently was awarded jazz performer of the year for 2011 by the Sammons Center for the Arts.
The Center has sponsored a successful monthly jazz series for more than 20 years; check out the spring 2012 schedule here.
Paterson is a member of the jazz quintet Straight Ahead. You can see them Saturdays at The Free Man Cajun Café at 2626 Commerce.
Paterson is a nurse practitioner by day and chair of the nurse peer review committee at Children’s Medical Center.
