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Resurrection Church will Host a “The Great Chili Cook-off” this Friday, February 17! This fun Chili Cook-off is sponsored by local churches with all proceeds going to provide showers for mid-county homeless. They’ll have a chili tasting with live bands and dancing. The menu includes all kinds of chili, cornbread, desserts, and beverages.

This will be a great family event – adult tickets are just $20, and children under 12 are free. They’ll also have blind taste tests by celebrity judges, with categories including beef chili, non-beef chili, and vegetarian chili. You can even stuff the ballot boxes for the People’s Choice Awards – they’re selling extra ballots for just $1 each. There will be special honors for the most spirited chili team!

The event starts at 6:00 PM and will wrap up around 8:30 PM. This event sounds like a lot of fun, and should be a way to get a great bowl of chili or two! Put in on your calendar and show up for a great family night and help out our large homeless population in the mid-county area.

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The Community Music School is putting on a Twelfth Night Harp Festival, this coming Saturday, January 7th from 2:00 to 3:30 PM at Resurrection Church in Aptos. This will be a celebration of the harp in its many forms, featuring soloists Steve Coulter (folk harp) Cathleen O’Connell (wire-strung harp), Malima Kone, (kora), the Community Music School Harp Orchestra and teen band. The performance will be conducted by Shelley Phillips, and the musicians will perform traditional Celtic and Ukrainian music.

Across the ages, the harp has been both universal and unique in human musical experience, holding a sort of mystical place in our consciousness and enchanting us with a pure, transcendent sound. It is arguably the most ancient stringed instrument, found all over the world in many cultures; the origin of the harp goes all the way back to Mesopotamia, with the earliest harps found in Sumer around 3500 BCE.

In modern times, it has changed and developed in all sorts of ingenious ways, leading to the pedal or concert harp (the giant harps typically seen in orchestras or jazz ensembles) and the electric harp (special effects-ready, in all sorts of crazy shapes and colors!). The harp is also the national instrument of Ireland, Paraguay, and Burma.

Admission to this event is free, but donations will be gratefully accepted to benefit youth music programs at the Community Music School, a non-profit educational organization.

This is a kid-friendly event, and a harp “petting zoo” will follow the performance for curious concert-goers.