Portfolio Category: Windfall Productions Portfolio

Windfall Entertainment

Windfall Entertainment
Entertainment venues have been staged at many of the "sports" special events produced by Windfall. For example the Bryant Gumbel Celebrity Golf Tournament, produced for Kaleidoscope, have hosted performances by; Bruce Hornsby, an American singer and keyboardist drawing  from classical, jazz, bluegrass, folk, Motown, gospel, rock and blues. Jeffrey Osborne, an American funk R&B musician, singer-songwriter…
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Tribute to Carlo Fassi

Tribute to Carlo Fassi
Carlo Fassi, a prominent coach who guided four figure skaters, including Peggy Fleming and Dorothy Hamill, to Olympic gold medals, died at the 1997 World Championships. A native of Milan, Italy, Mr. Fassi won a bronze medal at the 1953 world championships and gold medals at the European championships in 1953 and 1954. By 1968, he…
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World Special Olympics

World Special Olympics
It all began in the 1950s and early 1960s, when Eunice Kennedy Shriver saw how unjustly and unfairly people with intellectual disabilities were treated. She also saw that many children with intellectual disabilities didn’t even have a place to play. She decided to take action. Soon, her vision began to take shape, as she held a summer day camp…
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Three Times a Champion

Three Times a Champion
The U.S. Open developed from one of the oldest tennis championships in the world: the U.S. National Championship, which was established in 1881 as a national men’s singles and doubles competition. The tournament was open only to clubs that were members of the U.S. National Lawn Tennis Association (USLTA; now the USTA). The event expanded to…
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