Jazz For Peace™
featuring
Rick DellaRatta
to perform benefit concert in NYC for
CITYarts
on Friday, April 30th at 8:00pm
**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™ Concerts featuring Rick
DellaRatta continue with a special benefit
concert for CITYarts on Friday, April 30th at 8:00pm at Jazz on the
Park - 36 W. 106 St. between Manhattan Avenue and Central Park West. Tickets are
$25 and patrons may BYOB! For details and to purchase advance tickets online for
a 20% discount please go to www.JAZZFORPEACE.org
or call 212-947-1104 for
reservations.
“I dream of
giving birth to a child who will ask “Mother, what was war?” – Eva, 17 years
old
For 36 years CITYARTS has engaged more than
100,000 New Yorkers of all ages and backgrounds --
especially young people -- in the process of designing and
creating public
art: murals, mosaics and sculptures.
The
impact of these 250 collaborative artist-led projects on the physical,
educational and social landscape of New York City has been extraordinary.
The New York City Police Department has recognized the unique role CITYarts
played, under the leadership of Executive Director Tsipi Ben-Haim, in reducing
neighborhood violence through art, and making the city a safer place for
children. CITYarts projects foster community revitalization by galvanizing
local businesses, schools, and community organizations into developing new youth
programs and constructing new playgrounds, green gardens and pocket parks – 45
to date.
Now, CITYarts is building on its unique track record of reducing
violence through art, with an ambitious new project called "Pieces for
Peace ."
"Pieces
for Peace" will bring American children together with peers from around the
world to create an online mosaic comprised of their tile-size drawings,
paintings, and poems. Their work will ultimately be incorporated into a
permanent 200’ outdoor mosaic in a park in Harlem which will be created by New
York City kids in collaboration with 20 international student representatives
from participating schools.
All proceeds from this event will directly
benefit “Pieces for Peace". Thank you for your generous support in helping
CITYarts to engage the power of creative expression to build bridges of
international understanding. Please visit our website:
www.cityarts.org
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
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