Jazz For Peace™
featuring Rick DellaRatta
to perform benefit concert in NYC for
Kings of Kings Grand Council A.A.A.S.R.
on Sat. May 1st
at 7:00pm
**Purchase advance tickets now online at
Kings of Kings Grand Council A.A.A.S.R. Freemasonry is a non-profit organization. We believe in relief, truth and brotherly love with all mankind. Kings of Kings Grand Council Inc. is funded by the support of its membership. All resources coming into the Council is for the funding of all our different programs.
The mission of the Council provides a safe, clean community around the great state of New York, our great nation, and enlightens our young people to positive ways of life while helping less fortunate people get back on their feet.
Some of the programs that we provide are:
· Toy Drive: Given at St. Mary’s Hospital
· Thanksgiving Day food drive: Given at a different location each year.
· Pencil giveaway to school children.
· Community Day
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 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
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