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Jazz For Peace™ featuring Rick DellaRatta kicks off its second season with a Benefit Concert for New Yorkers Against Gun Violence (NYAGV) on Sat. February 28th at 7pm at Jazz on the Park in NYC! * Purchase advance tickets now online at www.jazzforpeace.org * Jazz For Peace™ Concerts featuring Pianist and Vocalist Rick DellaRatta continue with a special benefit concert for New Yorkers Against Gun Violence (NYAGV) on Sat. February 28th at 7pm at Jazz on the Park - 36 W106 st. (Duke Ellington Blvd.) between Manhattan Ave. and CPW . For details and to purchase advance tickets please go to www.jazzforpeace.org Reservations: 212-947-1104 Jazz For Peace™ featuring Rick DellaRatta has been featured on the cover of UPWARD , the feature article insert of BIG NEWS which is distributed widely in New York City as well as Albany,NY. Founded in 1993 New Yorkers Against Gun Violence (NYAGV) and its Education Fund is to reduce gun violence through advocacy and education designed to encourage action, influence public opinion and lead to policy change. With a primary focus on New York State, the organizations also advocate at the local and national levels for laws, policies and practices that protect New York State residents and particularly youth from gun violence. For more info please visit our website at: Click here: NYAGV 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'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 multi-cultural musicians to spread peace through the artform 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 under-privileged 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." "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. " The latest Jazz for Peace Concert Review now available online at www.RobertaOnTheArts.com ! |
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