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Jazz For Peace™ featuring Rick DellaRatta to perform benefit concert for Counseling Service of EDNY and BRIDGES of Long Island on Sat. Feb. 7 th at 7pm at Jazz on the Park in NYC! *** Concert will also feature Artwork by clients of Counseling Service of EDNY!*** - Purchase advance tickets now online at www.jazzforpeace.org and save 20% ! Jazz For Peace™ Concerts featuring Pianist and Vocalist Rick DellaRatta kicks off its second year of performances with a benefit concert for Counseling Service of EDNY and BRIDGES of Long Island on Sat. Feb. 7th, 2004 at 7pm at Jazz on the Park - 36 W106 st. (Duke Ellington Blvd.) between Manhattan Ave. and Central Park West. The Concert will also feature an artwork display by clients of Counseling Service of EDNY. Tickets for the event are $25. In addition, through a special offer from Jazz For Peace™ , Counseling Service of EDNY, and BRIDGES of Long Island advance tickets can be purchased online for a 20% discount for a limited time only at www.jazzforpeace.org Reservations: 212-947-1104 The Counseling Service of EDNY (CSEDNY) is a non-profit outpatient drug treatment program, licensed by New York State and in existence since 1973. CSEDNY now serves over 1,000 drug abusers and their families from seven sites in the metropolitan New York area and has always focused its services on helping the poor and serving as a tough but caring alternative to incarceration. CSEDNY plans to provide drug counseling services for residents of the Bridges of Long Island transitional house. Bridges of Long Island is a faith-based organization, which plans to open a transitional halfway house for indigent parolees and probationers from Nassau County by April 2004. The Bridges program will offer residents a structured 90-day residential program, highlighted by drug treatment, vocational counseling/job placement and other services. 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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