For immediate release:

Contact Jazz for Peace 212-947-1104

Jazz For Peace ™
featuring Rick DellaRatta to perform benefit concert in NYC for:

Globalview

On Saturday, August 14, 2004

at 8:00PM

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
greenroom

765 Sixth Avenue ~ New York, NY

(between 25^th and 26^th Streets)

 

THE GLOBALVIEW MISSION

Globalview seeks to utilize the rich cultural diversity of Queens to unite children and youths through celebration of their cultures. Educate them about current global situations and how the global community is working together to make the world a better place. Inspire them to see the world as an extension of their neighborhood and transform them into more active and aware global citizens.  

 

 

 

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.