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| Great Time at ISN Benefit Concert by Jazz for Peace! |
Jazz for Peace with Rick DellaRatta performed a terrific live and cybercast benefit concert for the ISN at Kavehaz in mid-Manhattan, New York, on Saturday, December 4, 2004. "We had a fabulous time, from start to finish," said ISN President Shelley Ensz. "And the event was doubly-special for me, as it was the first time I had gotten to meet many other ISN representatives." To top the event off, Joanne hosted a weekend get-together for some of the out-of-towners at her lovely home in New Jersey. The food, the company, the laughter was all fantastic! If you were unable to make this world-class jazz event, you may still participate in the ISN spirit this holiday season by joining and/or supporting the nonprofit ISN. All contributors are honored with mention in our ISN banner and newsroom. You can make a real difference in helping to provide information, support and research for scleroderma, worldwide! "I cannot thank enough our fabulous supporters, as well as the wonderful kindness, generosity and musical genius of Rick DellaRatta and Jazz for Peace. Thank you all, from the bottom of my heart!" |
| You are invited to attend the fabulous world-class Jazz for Peace Benefit Concert with Rick DellaRatta, to benefit scleroderma! |
The general public is invited as well as everyone who cares about scleroderma! View cybervideo about Rick DellaRatta and Jazz for Peace. Join leaders, volunteers and supporters of the nonprofit International Scleroderma Network (ISN) for this fabulous event! Tickets are $25 in advance payable through the Jazz for Peace PayPal account (scroll to ISN concert on bottom left of Jazz for Peace main web page, click on buy tickets) or by calling the ISN at 1-800-564-7099 or 952-831-3091 (U.S.) for both the live concert and the cybertickets. Tickets are $30 after December 1st or at the door. Visit the Jazz for Peace website and scroll way down for the ISN concert information. Concert starts at 6:30 sharp and goes until 7:15. Dinner can be ordered from the Kavehaz menu. People attending the ISN concert are welcome to stay at the Kavehaz for the evening as Jazz for Peace is doing a second benefit concert there immediately after the 45-minute ISN concert. If you are unable to attend either the live concert or cybercasts, please join or donate to the ISN this holiday season, to help us provide top-notch information, support and research for scleroderma, throughout the world! Posted 11-17-04. |
| Jazz for Peace to Perform a Benefit Concert for ISN |
10-4-04: For immediate release Jazz For Peace featuring Jazz Pianist and Vocalist Rick DellaRatta to perform a special Live and Cybercast Benefit Concert in New York City for the International Scleroderma Network: Saturday, December 4th, 2004 Tickets to the Live concert are $25 Advance ($30 at the door). In addition, people who attend the live concert in Manhattan will also receive free admission to all of the cybercasts! Visit the Jazz for Peace website at www.jazzforpeace.org for details and to purchase advance discount tickets, or call 212-947-1104 for reservations. Cybercast Concert Tickets Mutiple cybercast airtimes to be announced! Three cybercasts of this concert will be held in the week following the Live concert in New York City, at varying times so that people around the world can participate in this fantastic event! Cybercast tickets are also $25 and they entitle the holder to admission to any or all of the cybercast concerts. Visit the Jazz for Peace website at www.jazzforpeace.org to purchase Cybercast discount tickets now, or call 212-947-1104 for reservations. About Scleroderma Scleroderma is an autoimmune disease which is popularly known as the 'disease that turns people to stone' because it causes a hardening of the skin, blood vessels and/or internal organs. (See: What is Scleroderma?) International Scleroderma Network The nonprofit International Scleroderma Network (ISN) has a dynamic team of members, donors and volunteers who network and empower our worldwide scleroderma community by providing quality medical, support and public awareness information. The ISN supports international scleroderma research via the ISN/SCTC Research Fund. The ISN's www.sclero.org website offers over 1,000 pages in 19 languages, and publishes the terrific Voices of Scleroderma book series. 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". By joining forces worldwide (or performing) with multi-cultural musicians, entering regions that are politically controversial thought the means of live concerts, video taping, on hands/online teaching as well as supplying musical instruments to underprivileged children in under developed areas World-Wide. Jazz for Peace will reinforce what past history has already 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. Rick DellaRatta honored as one of the top Jazz Vocalists of all time! Rick DellaRatta has been listed as one of the 500 top jazz vocalists of all time in a new book by Scott Yanow titled The Jazz Singers. It will be published by Backbeat Books in 2005 and will be nationally distributed and available in most bookstores. Fast Facts : *Over the past year, Jazz For Peace has played over 75 benefit concerts across many of New York's finest jazz venues for numerous non-profit organizations in need. *The Jazz For Peace mission is to continue the benefit concert series; to expand its performances to more cities, states and countries; to bring jazz back into the schools and expose Americans to one of its greatest, yet often overlooked art forms; and to donate musical instruments to underprivileged children and schools. *Rick DellaRatta's new CD, Jazz For Peace, has just been released. Half of the proceeds goes toward musical instruments for underprivileged children. It features such jazz greats as Eddie Gomez, Lenny White, Paquito D'Rivera and the London Symphony Orchestra. *Rick DellaRatta is an international jazz pianist, vocalist and composer, who has won numerous awards through his talent. Most recently, he has been honored in Jazz Singers, a book by Scott Yanow, as one of the 500 greatest jazz vocalist of all-time. 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 androgynous in tone, sometimes ghostly.... sometimes sexy." --Jen Karpin, Green Mtn Jazz Messenger ".....sure it will be a good show." --New York Times Jazz Forum |
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