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EXPANSION SERIES CONCERT

Jazz For Peace™ goes to Boston

featuring Rick DellaRatta

 to perform a concert for

GREY2KUSA

on Thursday, July 22nd at 6:30pm!
**Purchase advance tickets now online at 
  www.JAZZFORPEACE.org
and save $$$$$$$ on advance ticket!**


Jazz For Peace™ featured in the current issue of
BIG NEWS!

 Jazz For Peace™ Expansion Series with a performance in Boston featuring Rick DellaRatta on Thursday, July 22nd at 6:30pm at  Zeitgeist Gallery- 1353 Cambridge Street in Inman Square, Cambridge.  For details and to purchase advance tickets online for a special discount please go 0to  www.JAZZFORPEACE.org . 

GREY2K USA is the largest greyhound protection organization in the United States.  Headquartered in Massachusetts, GREY2K USA works in the legislative process to pass laws to protect greyhounds and to defeat legislation that would hurt them.

 

It is our overall mission to end the cruelty and killing of dog racing nationwide.  Please go to www.grey2kusa.org and www.grey2kusaedu.org for more information on our work.



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.


 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." "a soft spoken sincerity that achieves a kind of dignity amid great emotional intensity."

                --Allaboutjazz.com

 
"DellaRatta has the talent, tunes and superb sidemen to deserve at least a Diana Krall -sized career. He sings and plays better, and fronts a tremendous band."

               --Daily Gazette


"...........DellaRatta brought new life to an old sweet song."

               --Boston Globe