This concert featuring Over the Rhine, Mary Gauthier, Minton Sparks, Old Black Kettle and Denice Hicks is part of a series of events about writer Flannery O'Connor sponsored by the Religion in the Arts and Contemporary Culture program at Vanderbilt Divinity School.

Location: Mercy Lounge, 1 Cannery Road (Directions).

Tickets are $15 at the door.
O'Connor (1925-1964), one of America's greatest fiction writers, was a staunch Roman Catholic and many of her stories focused on fundamentalist Protestants. She wrote the novels Wise Blood and The Violent Bear it Away and short story collections including All That Rises Must Converge. She won the National Book Award posthumously for The Complete Stories .

The series concludes on Friday, Feb. 20, with a roundtable discussion featuring Gauthier, Sparks, Linford Detweiler and Karin Berquist of Over the Rhine, and Julie Lee. The musicians will discuss “Shadows of the Word: Songwriters and Literary Legacies of Religion and Place.” The 1 p.m. discussion in the Art Room (G-20) of Vanderbilt Divinity School is free and open to the public.