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Spirit Fest for Special Olympics Saturday

Spirit Fest a contemporary Christian concert fund-raiser for Special Olympics Craven County. The concert is 6 p.m. Saturday at Grover C. Fields Middle School. Tickets are $5.

The concert features recording artist Acapella. The opening group is Looking Upward.

Tickets can be purchased up at the Bank of the Arts, Bender Apparel & Craven County Recreation Department.

Acapella played New Bern last in 2006. For more information, call 636-6606.

Tickets will be available at the door.

Coastal Cohorts tickets available

Tickets for the Coastal Cohorts in concert are on sale now.

The Core Sound Waterfowl Museum and Heritage Center and the North Carolina Coastal Federation will present the Coastal Cohorts (Don Dixon, Bland Simpson and Jim Wann) in concert, performing songs from their popular coastal show, “King Mackerel & The Blues Are Running,” as well as from their new release, “Wild Ponies.”

The concerts at the Crystal Coast Civic Center, Morehead City, are 8 p.m. June 28 and 29; 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. June 30.

Tickets are $20 general admission, $15 for CSWMHC and NCCF members.

The Crystal Coast Civic Center is at 3505 Arendell St., Morehead City.

Tickets are available at Emerald Isle Realty, the NCCF office in Ocean, and the CSWMHC.

For tickets by mail call the museum at 728-1500.

For sponsorship with reserved seating call or visit NCCF at 393-8185 or visit www.nccoast.org and www.coresound.com.

Literary prize deadline approaching

The North Carolina Humanities Council invites original entries of fiction or nonfiction for The Linda Flowers Prize. The organization welcomes a wide range of formats. Submissions must have North Carolina connections, but applicants need not be North Carolina residents. Prize is $500 and publication in a council publication. Author retains copyright. The deadline is Aug. 15. Send cover letter, 10 copies of submission (2,000 to 2,500 words, typed, double-spaced with author’s name omitted) to N.C. Humanities Council, 122 N. Elm St., Suite 601, Greensboro, N.C. 27401. Guidelines available at www.nchumanities.org.