For immediate release:

Contact Jazz for Peace 212-947-1104

Jazz For Peace
Uniting people through the artform of Jazz featuring Rick DellaRatta to perform benefit concert in New Jersey for:

B.A.R.K.S

On October 9, 2004

at 6:30PM

Tickets $30.00

For details and to purchase advance tickets at a discount please go to

  www.JAZZFORPEACE.org or call 212-947-1104 for reservations.

at

Grist Mill Cafe 

4a Lenape  Rd., Andover
 

B.A.R.K.S. (Byram Animal Rescue Kindness Squad) is a non-profit, all volunteer, animal rescue organization founded in 1973 to provide veterinary care, housing and permanent placement of stray and abandoned cats and dogs.

B.A.R.K.S. works in association with the Byram Pound located on Mansfield Drive in Byram Township, N.J. In addition to the pets that can be seen at the Byram Pound, we also have many cats in foster homes and several dogs in local kennels. These pets can be seen by appointment and at our regularly scheduled adoption days.


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 featuring:

Rick DellaRatta

Fast Facts


*Rick DellaRatta and Jazz For Peace performed at the United Nations in New York on September 25, 2002. He led a band consisting Israeli, MiddleEastern, European, Asian and American musicians in concert for an international audience.

*Over the past year, Jazz For Peace has played over 75 benefit concerts across many of New York's finest jazz venues for numerous non-profit organizations in need.

*The Jazz For Peace mission is to continue the benefit concert series; to expand its performances to more cities, states and countries; to bring jazz back into the schools and expose Americans to one of its greatest, yet often overlooked art forms; and to donate musical instruments to underprivileged children and schools.

*Rick DellaRatta's new CD, Jazz For Peace, has just been released. Half of the proceeds goes toward musical instruments for underprivileged children.  It features such jazz greats as Eddie Gomez, Lenny White, Paquito D'Rivera and the London Symphony Orchestra.

*Rick DellaRatta is an international jazz pianist, vocalist and composer, who has won numerous awards through his talent. Most recently, he has been honored in Jazz Singers, a book by Scott Yanow, as one of the 500 greatest jazz vocalist of all-time.