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Bud Grant Biography Feature

Our Biography of Bud Grant is given a shout out in the St. Paul, Pioneer Press in an article by Charley Walters.
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Bud Grant Biography

Geni Cavitt is Honored…

A very nice shout out from San Diego Downtown News.

Strut for Sobriety!

By Diana Cavagnaro

The 15th annual Strut for Sobriety was presented by A New PATH (Parents for Addition Treatment & Healing) on Sept. 21 at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina. The luncheon and fashion show is about reducing the stigma of addictive illness and finding quality treatment rather then incarceration. This signature recovery event began with a Champagne social hour and fun shopping in booths set up by local boutiques. TV personality Geni Cavitt was the “Mistress of Ceremonies” for the afternoon. She got the program rolling by announcing the 2019 Path to Recovery honorees. Awards were given to Claudio Cabrejos, M.D., Mary Jo Grubbs, Grace Micetich, and Donald Stewart, Ph.D., for their service and countless hours of volunteering.

Radio and television’s Little Tommy Sablan was the guest speaker and he presented a special award to Geni Cavitt for her years of volunteering efforts. The honorary chairs were Shirley and Hank Murphy. During the luncheon, guest auctioneer Joe Bauer oversaw the live auction. You may remember him from the “Hudson & Bauer Show,” which is San Diego’s longest running and most successful morning radio team. Chairs for this wonderful event were Liz Crocker and Colleen Ruis, Inc. Professional models as well as guest models who are in recovery strutted down the runway for a special segment wearing Macy’s fashions. . .

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International Women’s Brass Conference (IWBC)

In May of 2019, more than 550 brass performers, educators, students and enthusiasts converged upon Arizona State University to celebrate the International Women’s Brass Conference (IWBC). Cavitt Productions was on site to cover this inspirational event and produce a 17-minute program featuring still photo highlights and video interviews with conference organizers, attendees and brass world greats, like Carole Dawn Reinhart, Marie Speziale and IWBC founder Susan Slaughter. The music soundtrack is courtesy of composer Paul Lovett-Cooper as performed by the Athena Brass Band.

Professional Women In Healthcare Summit 2019

Fitting 163 members of the Professional Women In Healthcare Summit 2019 into one frame that reflects a Minneapolis backdrop was a bit, as they said, like herding cats. But herding of all kinds is among our specialties! By the by, they are very cool organization dedicated to empowering women and men alike.

Professional Women In Healthcare Summit 2019 – PWHS

Carole Dawn Reinhart

Carole Dawn Reinhart is Tina’s trumpet heroine. She is an internationally acclaimed trumpet soloist and teacher who paved a positive way for women and men to approach a career in trumpet performance. Her talent, faith and spirit shine brilliantly. She entrusted publishing the third edition of her life story “Aspects of a Career” to Cavitt Productions. Our friends know how much we love a good story, and this one’s a GREAT story.

The Two Latest From Cavitt Productions:

1. Life, Love & Lore, by Mary Fahey Leighton, edited by Cavitt Productions.

A love story, a legacy, an incredible adventure in exotic lands…that the is the story Mary wrote and we were honored to edit. Mary said that her husband, John, and she “keep finding one thing after another that is so excellent. It is such a wonderful product and no, I could not have done it as well by myself. We are both thrilled with it.”

2. To Walk With the People, by Christina Cavitt and Geni Cavitt.

Between 1987 and 2012, twelve Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet sojourned to South America to work in Chile’s poorest neighborhoods. They left behind no brick and mortar structures; nothing even as weighty as a feather. Yet this story may shake up everything you’ve always believed about charities and missions. this book is about an intangible, priceless gift shared between the sisters who served there and the beautiful people of Chile.

Consolidations & Giants

Before health care administration and insurance became complicated enough to flummox even the greatest minds of all time, hospitals were taking root in the Twin Cities. Some argue that the real revolution in tending the sick began just after World War II. Others say it started when the first native snapped his leg in the collapse of a makeshift river dock in St. Paul and was carted (literally) to a nearby home-cum-hospital. Everybody has a version of the foundation. Cavitt Productions isn’t taking any sides — we simply partnered with a retired hospital administrator to document the Minneapolis-St. Paul hospital history spanning his career from 1946 to 1996. It’s a great story, including broken bones, brothels and big business. We are proud to present: Consolidations & Giants: Minneapolis-St Paul Hospitals, 1946 to 1996. By Christina M Cavitt and Geni Cavitt, with Roger Starn, Paul Hillmer, Tim Hanson, Mary Madonna Ashton (CSJ), Earl Dresser, Penny Wheeler et al.

Cover design by Francha Cavitt

Horns, horns and more horns…

…as far as the eye could see. Cavitt Productions covered the International Horn Symposium’s 50th anniversary at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. We were commissioned to provide videos and stills of horn legends, newbies and everybody in between. A symposium highlight was WMN, featuring women from Minnesota’s Twin Cities Horn Club performing original work. Also on the docket were Denise Tryon, Lowell Shaw, the United States Army Field Band and vendors galore. (Oh my, the shopping!)

5-minute video highlights:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cBVx_Wo06Q

Canadian Brass at the Pritchard Music Brass Intensive 2018

We were thrilled to photograph Canadian Brass at the Pritchard Music Brass Intensive 2018 in Maryland. As we moved forward in our careers, our dad often reminded us, “It is nice to be important; it is more important to be nice.” Well, these five fellows ARE important and they are also nice. It was a pleasure working with them.