Here’s your chance to do something that will last a lifetime — plant a tree!

In honor of Arbor Day, free trees will be available at the White Deer Park Nature Center on Friday, March 15, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Park supervisor Stephanie Schaffer encourages you to come pick up a tree and planting instructions — one tree per family, please — then head home to create a special place in your very own yard.

Trees will be available all day, while supplies last.   

White Deer Park is located at 2400 Aversboro Road in Garner.

Here are more fun and local events:

Go Crabbing

Southern gospel singer Jason Crabb, that is!

He’ll appear at the Garner Performing Arts Center on Friday, March 15 at 7 p.m. now performing solo, Crabb was formerly lead vocalist for the Crabb Family.

Tickets are $23, and available at garnerperformingartscenter.com.

Gospel Fest 2013

Want more gospel music? Head to Gospel Fest 2013, to be presented by the JLBC Community Alliance this Sunday, March 17, at 4 p.m., at GPAC.  

Tickets are $15. For more info, call (919) 661-2885.

Country ‘Crash’

If country music’s your thing, check out Billy “Crash” Craddock next weekend at GPAC, on Friday, March 22 at 7:30 p.m.  

Crash has nine No. 1 records and 18 top tens, and is best known for hits like Rub It In, Knock Three Times and Ruby Baby. For ticket info, see garnerperformingartscenter.com.

Blues Bash

The Clayton Center presents Blues Bash VII: The Next Generation, on Saturday, March 23 at 8 p.m.

The show features the critically-acclaimed bluesmen Bart Walker, who was named Gibson Guitar Best Blues Guitarist in the 2012 International Blues Challenge, and Matt Andersen, the 2011 Maple Blues Award winner for Entertainer of the Year and Acoustic Act of the Year.

Tickets are $25 and are available at theclaytoncenter.com.