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Press Release

 

Jazz For Peace™ featuring Rick DellaRatta to perform a Jazz For Peace™ featuring Rick DellaRatta to perform benefit concert in NYC for Harlem Dowling - West Side Center on Sat. March 13th at 7:30pm - (B.Y.O.B.!)

* 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 Harlem Dowling - West Side Center on Sat. March 13th at 7:30pm at Jazz on the Park - 36 W. 106 st. between Manhattan Avenue and Central Park West. Tickets are $20 and patrons may BYOB! 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.

Harlem Dowling was one of the first institutions in the United States to provide for children,and the very first to provide for children of color since 1836. As a not-for-profit child welfare agency,the mission of Harlem Dowling-West Side Center For Children and Family Services is to serve and assist children and their families in crisis and distress. Our services include fostercare,adoption,preventive services,and related assistance to children and their famalies to enable them to live in a nutring enviroment. The Agency's programs focus on serving children and their families,living in the communties in which the Agency operates. Their is also additional information on our website www.harlemdowling.org

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."
--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

 The latest Jazz for Peace Concert Review now available online at  www.RobertaOnTheArts.com !