For Immediate Release: Contact - Jazz for Peace - 212-947-1104

Jazz For Peace™
featuring Rick DellaRatta

to perform benefit concert in NYC for
International Rescue Committee
on Sat. April 24th at 8:30pm

food being sponsored by

Blue Nile Catering
**Purchase advance tickets now online at 
  https://jazzforpeace.org/
and save 20%!**




Jazz For Peace™ featured in the current issue of
BIG NEWS!

Click here to view the pictures of our sold out concerts



Jazz For Peace™ Concert's featuring Rick DellaRatta continue with a special benefit concert  for International  Rescue Committee on Sat. April 24th at 8:30pm at Jazz on the Park - 36 W. 106 St. between Manhattan Avenue and Central Park West. Tickets are $30 and patrons may BYOB! For details and to purchase advance tickets online for a 20% discount please go to  https://jazzforpeace.org/jazzforpeace/Default.asp  or call 212-947-1104 for reservations.


Jazz For Peace™ featuring Rick DellaRatta has been featured on the cover of  UPWARD  , the feature article insert of  BIG NEWS  which is distributed widely in the streets and subways of New York City as well as Albany, NY.

Since it first opened its doors to refugees in 1933, the New York Regional Office of the International Rescue Committee (IRC New York) has been committed to serving refugees who have fled their homes in the face of violence and oppression.  Our goal is to enable community integration and self-sufficiency for each refugee we serve, through a variety of direct services and programs - these include job development, English language training, youth programming, and citizenship and immigration assistance.  Over more than 70 years of service, IRC New York has resettled over 16,000 refugees from more than 27 different countries worldwide.  This year, we will resettle roughly 300 refugees and provide citizenship and other direct services to hundreds more. 

The IRC also operates overseas relief and rehabilitation projects in 25 countries in Africa, Asia, and Europe.  In addition to New York, the IRC has refugee resettlement programs in 18 cities across the United States, providing direct services for refugees, asylees, and victims of trafficking and advocating for their protection under international and U.S. law.  Founded at the suggestion of Albert Einstein, the IRC is the oldest and largest non-profit, non-sectarian voluntary organization providing global and emergency relief, protection, and resettlement services for refugees and victims of oppression and violent conflict.   Please visit our website at: www.theirc.org/newyork


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 multicultural 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 file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Debra/My%20Documents/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