Ascent Russian Orphan Aid Foundation - Jazz For Orphans™ Benefit Concert in New York on 04/23/04

Jazz For Orphans™ Benefit Concert

Jazz For Peace™ featuring Rick DellaRatta to perform benefit concert in NJ for Ascent Russian Orphan Aid Foundation.

Jazz for Peace has contributed $49 plus $6 in additional donations from this event.
All proceeds went to Gas and Oil for Hope Family Commune.

Friday, April 23 at 7:30 pm
Admission: $25 at the door, $20 in advance
Advance purchase is closed.

Jazz for Peace will donate $7 to the orphans from every ticket purchase.
Contact Jazz for Pease at 212.947.1104 or info@jazzforpeace.org

Luna Rossa Jazz Restaurant (Phone: (973)340-6125, Web: www.lunarossaclifton.com)
39 Harding Avenue, Clifton, NJ 07011 (Click here for map and directions)

Join us for a romantic evening of Jazz and Bossa Nova with the internationally acclaimed group Jazz For Peace featuring vocalist and pianist Rick DellaRatta in a benefit for the Russian orphans!

Also see April Chords concert this Sunday in Brooklyn!

Ascent Russian Orphan Aid Foundation is a non-profit charity that spends 100% of donations to provide basic necessities such as food, clothing and shelter to Russian orphans and homeless children. We do not receive any compensation for our work and pay for all operating expenses out of our own pocket. Every penny of your contribution goes directly to an orphanage to help complete the project you support. All orphanages and shelters that receive our help are registered non-profit organizations in the Russian Federation and have at least a 5-year record of accomplishment. We are a 501(3)(c) non-profit charitable corporation registered in the state of California (EIN 91-2192371) and your donations are fully tax deductible. Please visit www.iOrphan.org for more information.

Jazz For Peace™ featured in the current issue of BIG NEWS!
Click here to view the pictures of our sold out concerts

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 PeaceT 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