Junction City Area Chamber of Commerce CEO Dennis Beson is the new executive director of Sundown Salute.

Beson recently began helping with sponsorships for the Fourth of July celebration,  and Wednesday was approved for the executive director’s position by the Sundown Salute Committee.

Calling Sundown Salute an iconic event for Junction City, Beson told JCPost.com he was very excited to help. He witnessed a Sundown Salute celebration for the first time in 2016. “It’s a great event, there’s a lot of great people, there’s been great people in the past, there’s been great people now. It is a team. Our president of the board, Nikki Londene, has done a fantastic job of recruiting some great acts at a reasonable price.”

One fact noted during the committee meeting on Wednesday, was that one segment of the concerts, the country music acts, have been receiving numerous shares and likes on Facebook.

The celebration will include concerts ranging from rock to country music. There will be numerous other events ranging from performances by the Old Abilene Town Gunfighters to a parade and the Ottaway Amusements carnival will be in operation for five days, June 30th through July 4th.