For Immediate Release: Contact - Jazz for Peace - 212-947-1104

Jazz For Peace™
featuring Rick DellaRatta

to perform benefit concert in NYC for 
The Sledge Group, Inc. 
on Sat. May 8th at 8:30pm - (B.Y.O.B.!)

**Purchase advance tickets now online at 
  www.JAZZFORPEACE.org
and save 20%!**




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

Click here to view the pictures of last weeks sold out concert



Jazz For Peace™ Concert's featuring Rick DellaRatta continue with a special benefit concert for  The Sledge Group, Inc. on Sat. May 8th at 8:30pm at Jazz on the Park - 36 W. 106 St. between Manhattan Avenue and Central Park West. Tickets are $25 and patrons may BYOB! For details and to purchase advance tickets online for a 20% 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 the streets and subways of New York City as well as Albany, NY.

Sledge Group Mission Statement:

 
We are dedicated to empowering our youth through educationand life experiences.
 
We must transform the minds of our "At-Risk" youth by freeing them  from their unconscious
acceptance of inferiority.
 
Our Commitment
 
 
We are committed to improving the quality of life in our communities through the many services we offer.
 
We believe in empowering our constituents to be vital, self-sufficient citizens.
 
We seek to enhance the lives of the unserved and underserved by providing high-quality services and leadership.
 
We believe that collaboration between and among non-profit, government and businesses at all levels has been, and will continue to be, critical to our country's rise above many of its greatest challenges.
 

"Building Our Youth To Build Our Community"



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 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



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 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

The latest Jazz for Peace Concert Review now available online at 
www.Robertaonthearts.com!