EXPANSION SERIES CONCERT
Jazz For Peace™
featuring Rick DellaRatta goes to Wisconsin
for Jazz Bossa-Nova Benefit Concert for
Northland Youth Music Program
on Monday, August 2nd at 8pm
For more information, call: (715)-364-2234
Jazz For Peace™ Expansion Series continues with a performance in Wisconsin featuring Rick DellaRatta on Monday, August 2nd at 8pm! For more information, please call (715)-364-2234.
The mission of the Northland Youth Music Program is to provide students participating in school band programs and school orchestral programs more extracurricular concert band, jazz band and ensemble activities as a compliment to their school band experience. The Northland Youth Music Program will charge a minimal fee for programs offered.
N.Y.M.P. seeks funding assistance for our programs from community, business, organizations, and foundations to assure that all students will be able to participate regardless of their financial means. The N.Y.M.P. strives to provide students experience and increased enjoyment of music, while being challenged to perform and attain a higher level of achievement. Participating in various ensembles opportunities will strengthen the area school band programs by providing continued increased involvement of students in music programs. Students must be enrolled in a school band program to participate in a N.Y.M.P. program unless in an alternative education setting. N.Y.M.P. provides students opportunities to meet and socialize with others of common interests, helping foster lasting relationships that can continue into adulthood.
Jazz For Peace™ featured in the current issue of
BIG NEWS!
Jazz For Peace™ featuring Rick DellaRatta has been featured on the cover of UPWARD <http://www.mainchance.org/upward/read/january2004/burch.html>, the feature article insert of BIG NEWS <http://www.mainchance.org/upward/read/january2004/burch.html> which is distributed widely in the streets and subways of New York City as well as Albany, NY.
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 internationalaudience.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
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
"A vocalist with a great power to thrill and move the listener, with some of the fragile delicacy that Chet Baker had in his youth, but with a greater sense of assurance... (He has) a soft spoken sincerity that achieves a kind of dignity amid great emotional intensity."
--Allaboutjazz.com
"...........DellaRatta brought new life to an old sweet song."
--Boston Globe