For Immediate Release: Contact - Jazz for Peace - 212-947-1104

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

on Saturday July 10th 8:00pm:

765 Sixth Avenue(between 25 & 26th St) NY,NY

**Purchase advance tickets now online at www.JAZZFORPEACE.org
and save 20%!**

Jazz For Peace™ featured in the current issue of
BIG NEWS!

Click here to view the pictures of our sold out concerts

Jazz For Peace™ Concert's featuring Rick DellaRatta continue with a special "BRAZILIAN Bossa-Nova" benefit concert for Casa Atabex Ache on Saturday July 10th at 8:00pm at Greenroom -765 sixth Avenue, New York, NY. Tickets are $25 plus a one drink minimum. For details and to purchase advance tickets online for a 20% discount please go to www.JAZZFORPEACE.org or call 212-947-1104 for reservations.

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 the streets and subways of New York City as well as Albany, NY.

Casa Atabex Ache translates into the House of Womyn's Power/La Casa del Poder de la Mujer. We are a not-for profit organization led by and for young and adult womyn of color. At Casa we believe that womyn are experts in their own lives. We are all born with the power to heal and transform ourselves, families and communities for individual transformation and social change. Located in the South Bronx, Mott Haven for the past ten years Casa has provided two programs to a community that that in the mist of multiple forms of violence still dare to dream and create the world they want to live in. At Casa, young and adult womyn reclaim the tools they have within, their cultural and spiritual practices rooted in non traditional medicines, techniques and healing practices and use the elements of mother earth as weapons of resistance against violence in their lives and to reclaim their reproductive health for self determination, self-healing and self-empowerment. Essentially , liberating oursleves from internalized oppression, which contirbute to the break down of her self-esteem, self-destruction and self blame, Casa provides the opporuntities and resources for womyn to reclaim their bodies, minds, and spiirts our "voices" and as a consequnece their right to live a life free of violence.

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 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