Live entertainment, carnival rides and a new and improved fireworks show are just a few of the highlights of the upcoming Sundown Salute in Junction City.

Sundown Salute runs July 1-4 in downtown Junction City at Heritage Park. This years musical enteratiners include Stateline Drive “Country Boy Band”, Shawn Gerhard “Tribute to Garth Brooks”, Revelation “A Tribute to Journey, and Saturday nights headliner Loverboy.

Sharon Glessner, Sundown Salute Coordinator explained that this year will be similiar to years past in the sense that a lot of the same food vendors will be returning and Ottaway Amusements is back again this year to put on the carnival. But this years firework show is expected to be bigger, longer and better.

“We’re going to have a longer and bigger fireworks show than we had last year, similar to but there’s going to be more of an impact and there will be music involed, I know a lot of people were disappointed in that last year,” said Glessner.

The show is expected to last between 15-20 minutes.

Volunteers are still needed for the event, especially the Coors Freedom Run on the morning of July 4th.

“Specifically we need volunteers for the five different water stops and the registration that morning. Anybody that wants to come out we will probably need 15-20 total.”

Set up for Sundown Salute will begin June 29th with the setup of the stage and the carnival. Vendors will begin setting up Wednesday afternoon in time for the kick off of the event Wednesday evening. As many as 20,000 people are expected to turn out for the four day event.