Jazz For
Peace™
featuring Rick DellaRatta
to perform benefit concert in NYC
for
Ontavias Hearthstone
Foundation
on Sat. April 10th at 8:30pm -
(B.Y.O.B.!)
**Purchase advance tickets now online at
Our mission is to provide a residential program that will furnish teen moms with emotional support, educational training, job training, professional counseling, parenting classes, and spiritual direction in a loving environment during this most important time in their lives when they have no one else to turn to and nowhere else to go.
The Ultimate Goal: To afford a place where time can be spent reflecting on life and making wise decisions that will impact both her future and that of her child. By the time these young mother’s depart the maternity home they will have been empowered to be self supporting, successful, independent contributing members of society and know that they and their babies are truly significant.
It is important to us to offer a mainstay of strength and encouragement to these young moms during this challenging time in a nurturing family like environment.
Our
home will be able to house five girls, age 19 or younger at one
time.
We are offering an alternative to institutional living in
an area where there aren’t too many hospices similar in nature. Ideally, the
potential for implementing a two-year residential transitional housing program
down the road would be a marked show in growth.
Being able to give testimonial from first hand experience would give our company the upper hand in running a successful maternity home. I at one time had the wonderful chance of being an occupant in a home for young mother’s with child, and in a time of uncertainty and lack of support, I was offered an over abundance of love, nurturing, spiritual guidance and life skills that I still use daily 13 years later. My fondest memories are of friendships gained and experience’s learned during my stay and I would so like to share those glorious feelings with other young mothers.
Ontavias Hearthstone Foundation is registered with the state of
New Jersey as a non-profit corporation.
On September 25, 2002, Jazz Pianist &
Vocalist Rick DellaRatta was invited to lead a band consisting of: 'Israeli,
Middle Eastern, European, Asian & American' Jazz musicians in a concert
inside the United Nations, for an international audience.Rick named this
band:
"Jazz For Peace™" Jazz for Peace's mission is to help advance people to their
highest potential through the understanding of Jazz as well as spreading peace
through our "Jazz For Peace™ Concerts" worldwide - joining forces (or
performing) with multi-cultural musicians to spread peace through the art form
of Jazz and entering regions that are politically controversial. By the means
of live concerts, video taping, on hands/on-line teaching as well as supplying
musical instruments to underprivileged children in under developed areas
worldwide, Jazz for Peace will re-enforce what past history has proven - that
the art form of Jazz has the ability to create a positive effect that unites
people and may eventually start to transform the barriers and issues of
different cultures and beliefs.
For more information please visit www.jazzforpeace.org
Recent
Quotes:
"Rick DellaRatta is one of the finest Jazz pianists alive."
--Savannah Times
"It is actually the quality of DellaRatta's voice that
grows on me more & more with repeated listenings. At first I felt that
Rick's strengths as a pianist were foremost, but with time I have come to
understand that Dellaratta's skill as a vocalist is not to be underestimated.
"His voice has quite a haunting quality to it, being slightly androgenous in
tone, sometimes ghostly.... sometimes sexy. "
--Jen Karpin, Green Mtn Jazz Messenger
".....sure it will be a good
show."
--New York Times Jazz Forum
The latest Jazz for Peace Concert Review
now available online at