For immediate release: Contact Jazz for Peace 212-947-1104

"DellaRatta is fast becoming the Bono of Jazz!" Salt Lake City Weekly ~ Aug. 16, 2008


Jazz For Peace
featuring Rick DellaRatta

performing a special benefit concert in CLEVELAND , OH  for:

LEGACY IN EDUCATION 

on

Saturday May 30, 2009 at 7:00 PM

at 

12387 Cedar Road
Cleveland ,OH

Tickets $25.00 

or visit our website for advanced purchase discount tickets at www.jazzforpeace.org

 

Legacy In Education programs include: Adopt a Program- Individuals, groups or corporations can adopt a music or arts program for children grades K through 12. This program helps to maintain and restore school based arts programs and extracurricular activities that otherwise would not be available for children. Let's Play- Puts musical instruments in the hands of children and for use in the classroom.. Curtain Up!- Provides items needed for stage performances. Children will have the opportunity to have onstage and practical experience with props, costumes, and technical needs for productions. Legacy in Education strives to work with schools to offer these programs as well as customizing individual programs to meet the needs of the children in individual schools. We will offer creative solutions to keep music and arts programs available to our children. Schools with a need are invited to contact Legacy in Education to discuss the needs of the children in your school. Legacy Family Choir is part of our outreach program. This community choir seeks to educate it's choir members at all levels of music reading and vocal ability, college interns and our audiences. It is important to provide the community with quality entertainment and also an awareness of the need for music and arts education."""
 

 

Rick DellaRatta is now considered by many to be one of the finest Singer/Pianists performing today and one of only a handful of Jazz Artists who can make a successful musical presentation to a large audience without having to abandon the true art form of Jazz. Through his life long endeavor to help advance people to their highest potential through the understanding of Jazz as well as spreading peace worldwide through his "Jazz for Peace World Tour", Rick DellaRatta is considered to be an innovator and a visionary.

Below please find some recent fast facts:

-         US President Barack Obama joins Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Senator John McCain, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Michael Bloomberg and many others in support of Rick DellaRatta and Jazz for Peace!

-        Jazz pianist, vocalist and composer Rick DellaRatta was included by The Foundation Center in their list of musician philanthropists along with Bono (U2), Elton John, Peter Gabriel and Sting. 

-        Rick DellaRatta was included in a new book called "The Jazz Singers" as one of the top 500 Jazz Vocalists of All Time.

-        Jazz for Peace founder Rick DellaRatta celebrated the 6th Anniversary of this historic concert at the United Nations which united Israelis, Palestinians and Americans as well as the 650 benefit concert "Helping those who are helping others!" since this landmark event.

 

For complete tour schedule and additional info please visit www.jazzforpeace.org

High resolution pictures can be found at http://www.rickdellaratta.com/press.html

For information on Rick DellaRatta please visit http://www.rickdellaratta.com    

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