Jazz For Peace™
"Uniting People through the art form of Jazz"
featuring Rick DellaRatta to perform benefit concert in NYC for:
NYC Student Initiative for AIDS
on Friday, Sept. 24th at 7:30pm
Advanced discount tickets available on our website at www.jazzforpeace.org
$10 Students / $20.00 Adult advance ticket
NYC Student Initiative for AIDS, Inc. is an entirely student-run non-profit organization. Our purpose is to raise both awareness and funds to fight the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. We actively seek to involve student communities in this fight through artistic and educational means. We support initiatives that treat, educate and care for people affected by HIV/AIDS in developing nations.
For details and to purchase advance tickets for an online discount please go to www.JAZZFORPEACE.org or call 212-947-1104 for reservations.
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 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