Jazz For Peace™
featuring Rick DellaRatta
to perform benefit concert in NYC for
OVERSEAS MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TEAM
on Sat. May 22nd
at 9:00pm
**Purchase advance tickets now online at
OVERSEAS MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TEAM
History/Profile:
The Overseas Medical Assistance Team (OMAT) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to enhance the quality of medical care in developing countries by: providing medical assistance through volunteers; donating medical equipment and supplies to health care organizations overseas; conducting in-service training and health education to these organizations; raising funds for related activities or projects; and, arranging for severely ill patients to be brought to the United States for treatment.
Since its inception in 1992, OMAT has made about 17 trips abroad, and OMAT President Dr. Stephen Carryl has made numerous trips to Guyana to perform special surgical cases. Collectively, the organization has donated millions of dollars in patient care, equipment and supplies to hospitals in the Caribbean and one facility in Africa. OMAT also arranges for several patients from the Caribbean to gain access to medical care in New York City hospitals.
OMAT's success has been due mostly to a core group of dedicated volunteers. These physicians, nurses and other health care professionals pay their airfare and lodging costs and donate their particular expertise on each trip overseas. OMAT has made very positive connections with the Ministries of Health and the hospitals in the countries where its volunteers have visited.
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