The Whip Guy, Coming to Amish Acres Arts & Crafts Festival, appears on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent”
Chris Craft and his wife Laurie appeared on “America’s Got Talent” on NBC Television at the Hammerstein Ballroom Theater in New York City, Wednesday, July 16th and received three enthusiastic thumbs up from celebrity judges David Hasselhoff, Sharon Osbourne, and Piers Morgan. The Crafts will be going on to Las Vegas attempting to win the $1,000,000 top prize and a show headliner on the Las Vegas Strip.
The
Crafts will appear all four days of the Amish Acres Arts & Crafts
Festival in Nappanee, Indiana, July 30th through August 2nd. For
over twenty years, Chris Camp has kept the art of cracking the whip
alive with his act that has made him three-time world champion, taken
him to “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” and the “2007
Guinness Book of World Records” and “Ripley’s Believe
It or Not.” He is also featured in the new film “Breaking
and Entering.” Chris performs historical feats including Dead
Man’s Chest, Cut Throat, The William Tell, and Blind Man’s
Bluff—and throws in a bad joke or two.
The festival has also become sort of famous for hosting Indiana’s shortest parade around the historic farm’s pond. It includes Nappanee Mayor Larry Thompson driving his 1957 Nappanee Smoky Stover fire truck, a farm wagon load of waving winning artists from the festival’s competition and normally an ump pah or marching band, but because of the state of the economy, a new band, the Great Recession Band, has been formed from a rag tag group with kids in a hodge podge of band uniforms smacking tin cans with sticks as a boom box blurts out the hits of 1964, the year the festival was created 47 years ago. The popular songs of the year were “Big Girls don’t Cry” by the Four Seasons; “Duke of Earl” by Gene Chandler, “Good Luck Charm” by Elvis Presley, “Roses are Red” by Bobby Vinton and “The Twist” by Chubby Checker. The tongue -in-cheek event takes place Friday, July 31st at 7:00 p.m.
In
a one for the money, one for the show move, the festival will give
away by drawing two Papparazi 50cc motor scooters on Sunday near the
festival’s close. Over 5,000 visitors registered for a similar
scooter during last year’s event. After howls from the artists
who were declared ineligible, a second scooter will now be given to
the artists and craftsmen who make up the marketplace. Each of the
300 artists who hail from over 25 states, and 250 cities are eligible
for the drawing.
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