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.  


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. 

 

“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  


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
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