Blue Hat Project

On Saturday December 4th, 2004

at 7:30pm

at Kavehaz Gallery Cafe

37 West 26^th St. Between 5^th & 6^th Aves.

 212-343-0612

The Blue Hat Project fosters education and understanding between youth and young adults in Central America and the United States through the visual, performing and communication arts.

Our mission is to create and sustain lasting relationships between individuals and organizations in the United States and Central America, while providing and encouraging experience and scholarship of modern Central American culture. We have supported youth-led cultural programs that utilize the arts to provide education and promote peace and reconciliation in under-developed, divided communities, and have hosted programs in the arts to promote education and encourage support for these communities.  The Blue Hat Project is a developing 501.c.3 organization incorporated within the state of Texas and was founded in April 2002.

"Jazz For Peace™ "

Jazz For Peace featuring: Rick DellaRatta

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". By joining forces worldwide (or performing) with multi-cultural musicians, entering regions that are politically controversial thought the means of live concerts, video taping, on hands/online teaching as well as supplying musical instruments to underprivileged children in under developed areas World-Wide.  Jazz for Peace will reinforce what past history has already proven. 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.

Rick DellaRatta honored as one of the top Jazz Vocalists of all time!

Rick DellaRatta has been listed as one of the 500 top jazz vocalists of all time in a new book by Scott Yanow titled The Jazz Singers. It will be published by Backbeat Books in 2005 and will be nationally distributed and available in most bookstores.

Fast Facts:
*Rick DellaRatta and Jazz For Peace performed at the United Nations in New York on September 25, 2002. He led a band consisting Israeli, MiddleEastern, European, Asian and American musicians in concert for an international audience.

*Over the past year, Jazz For Peace has played over 75 benefit concerts across many of New York's finest jazz venues for numerous non-profit organizations in need.

*The Jazz For Peace mission is to continue the benefit concert series; to expand its performances to more cities, states and countries; to bring jazz back into the schools and expose Americans to one of its greatest, yet often overlooked art forms; and to donate musical instruments to underprivileged children and schools.

*Rick DellaRatta's new CD, Jazz For Peace, has just been released. Half of the proceeds goes toward musical instruments for underprivileged children.  It features such jazz greats as Eddie Gomez, Lenny White, Paquito D'Rivera and the London Symphony Orchestra.

*Rick DellaRatta is an international jazz pianist, vocalist and composer, who has won numerous awards through his talent. Most recently, he has been honored in Jazz Singers, a book by Scott Yanow, as one of the 500 greatest jazz vocalist of all-time.

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 androgynous in tone, sometimes ghostly.... sometimes sexy. "
--Jen Karpin, Green Mtn Jazz Messenger

".....sure it will be a good show."
--New York Times Jazz Forum