Re:   Bill  and Sharon Dunbar

present .   .... present   'on the  air'     almost continuously    as a   ' bluegrass-pushing'     DJ on WOW   radio,     present at   all of  the  main bluegrass    festivals  setting  up  sort of a  first-aid  camp   for  bluegrass musicians,   present  at  all local and  national  bluegrass  and  country  concerts   anywhere in this area,  present  in music studios  pushing all  of   local  bluegrass music  by  letting  them  play  on  live  radio shows and  commercials.  (Those  were the days  when  WOW  had  9  or  10  sister  stations, and one  of the largest  country music  conglomerates  in the  country. ) The Dunbar's   were also very  present  and very active   on   the   GPBOTMA    board..  promoting  and  volunteering.

Bill,   I've been  meaning to thank  you for  a long   time :    for  all   of the  hard  work   you have  put in over the  years.

Because  of  you, and fellow  stalwarts  like Bob Everhart,    and  Dick Zion,    we  local  ( bluegrass) (and old time)   musicians  actually   now  have   classic   audio and  video  recordings   of    our  earlier  times  .  You    made it  happen.  Thanks.

I recently  tuned into  Bill's  channel  online  and  heard  one  our  fellow  Omaha-based   GPBOTMA  members  being  played .   It was  (Hal Cottrell)   and  his  wife  playing  a  song  which  they had   written  and   recorded.   Last week   at the very successful  Nebraska  BLuegrass  Festival,  I   saw   some other  local  bluegrass bands  were  giving    their  new  cd's  for  Bill to  play on  his  internet  show.

Bill Dunbar    is  and has  always  been   incredible   promoter   of   bluegrass  music.

Every year,  when  I see  the  national  awards  shows  like SPGMA  and  IBMA,  I always  wonder  what it  would  take  for a  whole  lot of us  to  get involved and simply vote  for  Bill Dunbar    for  Bluegrass DJ  of the  year.

In our  region,  he  has  been  he only  DJ  who  has  promoted  bluegrass on the air  for    30  years.

Thanks Bill

Dan McElroy