{"id":4116,"date":"2022-03-29T23:43:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T06:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/?p=4116"},"modified":"2022-03-30T18:50:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T01:50:20","slug":"old-west-street-performer-seeks-posse-wickenburg-az","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2022\/03\/29\/old-west-street-performer-seeks-posse-wickenburg-az\/","title":{"rendered":"Old West Street Performer Seeks &#8220;Posse&#8221; &#8211; Wickenburg AZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>[Kirk McKnight, Wickenburg Sun]<\/pre>\n<p>In a setting where interactive, bronze sculptures will divulge their story with the push of a button, local character actor Lance Kramer looks to add an extra dimension to the educational experience of Downtown Wickenburg. Coming from a place formerly referred to as \u201cHangtown,\u201d Kramer arrived and found Wickenburg to be a \u201cperfect place\u201d to resume his thespian duties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was in a comedy shootout group called the \u2018Hangtown Marshals\u2019 in a little town in Northern California called Placerville,\u201d Kramer said. \u201cIt\u2019s where the gold was discovered in 1848, which brought on the California Gold Rush, but it was originally called \u2018Hangtown.\u2019 Here, you have the history of Henry Wickenburg and Vulture City, the richest gold mine in Arizona. It\u2019s touristic with a cute little downtown, so what I want to do with this group is pretty much what we did up north and that is provide comedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kramer, having already amassed some of his \u201cposse,\u201d looks to recruit area locals as well. \u201cRight now, I\u2019ve got five to six guys and two to three women, and we are in the infant stage,\u201d Kramer said. \u201cThe idea is to get up to about 15 guys and probably four to five women, and it could get bigger after that. The nice thing about a big group, when you have a show, 50% will show up, but if you\u2019ve got a good group, maybe you have two shows in one day. They\u2019re comedy skits that last about eight minutes. The idea is to make people laugh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aside from comedy, Kramer also hopes to provide \u201cedutainment\u201d with the group. \u201cIn Hangtown, one of the things we did as a group was study its history,\u201d Kramer said. \u201cThen we would go downtown and do what we called \u2018walkabouts.\u2019 There are a lot of tourists who come into Wickenburg because of the history here. I talked to the Chamber of Commerce about being downtown in our period clothing during the winter months when the majority of the tourists come and just mingle with them and talk a little bit about the history if they have any questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kramer\u2019s talents, which include singing Marty Robbins gunfighter ballads, have already been sought out locally for weddings. His group in Placerville evolved from street performances to winery and brewery appearances, as well as visits to senior centers and rest homes. \u201cWith Wickenburg, I\u2019m really hoping this thing will get some traction and motivation and that people will really get the vision of what we\u2019re trying to move this toward,\u201d Kramer said. \u201cThat\u2019s part of keeping the old west alive.\u201d For info, call (530) 417-4036 or email lancegkramer@yahoo.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI was in a comedy shootout group called the \u2018Hangtown Marshals\u2019 in a little town in Northern California called Placerville,\u201d Kramer said. \u201cIt\u2019s where the gold was discovered in 1848, which brought on the California Gold Rush, but it was originally called \u2018Hangtown.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ScreenHunter-1839.jpg",618,447,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ScreenHunter-1839-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ScreenHunter-1839-600x434.jpg",600,434,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ScreenHunter-1839.jpg",618,447,false],"large":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ScreenHunter-1839.jpg",618,447,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ScreenHunter-1839.jpg",618,447,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ScreenHunter-1839.jpg",618,447,false],"darknews-slider-full":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ScreenHunter-1839.jpg",618,447,false],"darknews-featured":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ScreenHunter-1839.jpg",618,447,false],"darknews-medium":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ScreenHunter-1839.jpg",618,447,false],"darknews-medium-square":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ScreenHunter-1839-350x350.jpg",350,350,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/News\/events\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Events<\/a>","tag_info":"Events","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4119,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116\/revisions\/4119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}