Jazz For Peace™
featuring Rick DellaRatta to perform benefit concert in Oneonta NY for:
Catskill Rural AIDS Service
on Sunday, September 26th at 7:00PM
Tickets $25.00
For details and to purchase advance tickets for an online discount please go to
www.JAZZFORPEACE.org or call 212-947-1104 for reservations.
at Hartwick College - Slade Theatre
(Hartwick College -1 Hartwick Drive - Oneonta, NY )
Catskill Rural AIDS Services (CRAS) is an independent volunteer organization serving Delaware and Otsego counties in central New York. CRAS provides educational programs and support services for people living with AIDS and their families, through a network of local volunteers. CRAS encourages people who are infected or affected by AIDS, to use our services.We welcome the support and involvement of all residents of our 2 counties.
"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 artforms; 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.