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Jazz For Peace™ featuring Rick DellaRatta to perform benefit concert in NYC for The Empire State Coalition of Youth and Family Services on Sat. Feb 21St at 8pm! * Purchase advance tickets now online at www.jazzforpeace.org * Jazz For Peace™ featured in the current issue of BIG NEWS! Jazz For Peace™ Concert's featuring Rick DellaRatta continue with a special benefit concert for The Empire State Coalition of Youth and Family Services (ESC) on Sat. Feb. 21st at 8pm at Jazz on the Park - 36 W. 106 st. between Manhattan Avenue and Central Park West. Tickets are $20 For details and to purchase advance tickets online for a 25% 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 New York City as well as Albany,NY. The Empire State Coalition of Youth and Family Services (ESC) is a consortium of programs and individuals concerned with the plight of our State’s homeless, runaway and street-involved youth. ESC helps to strengthen and support programs in their life-affirming and often life-saving work. In New York City, ESC provides free training and technical assistance to over 75 programs that help disenfranchised youth. 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 multi-cultural musicians to spread peace through the artform 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 under-privileged 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." "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. " The latest Jazz for Peace Concert Review now available online at www.RobertaOnTheArts.com ! |
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