The "Celine Dion" of Catholic contemporary music will perform a free vocal concert at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 19 in Church of Notre Dame, 2325 Highland Road.

Donna Cori Gibson has been sharing her music in Catholic churches, conferences, interviews and songs around the world. Her music is focused on prayer and explaining the truths of the Catholic church and scripture.

Mercer County Cursillo is sponsoring the repeat performance. Ms. Gibson sang to a near-capacity crowed last summer in Notre Dame Church.

She is a repeating guest at many conferences from coast to coast. Ms. Gibson can be heard in interviews and song on Catholic stations across the nation and worldwide on Mother Angelica's Eternal World Television Network and sister short-wave station, WEWM.

The concert is open to the public. Especially invited are Cursillistas -- those who participated in Cursillo -- along with their families and friends. Teen-agers and young adults also are urged to attend.

Ms. Gibson was born in New York and reared in Florida where she started studying music and performance at a young age. A professional singer by 17, she earned a full scholarship to University of Miami School of Music and was the first freshman accepted into its top vocal group. She also was on call as a "session" singer in many of Miami's local studios.

Ms. Gibson moved to New York where she sang with bands; in clubs, studios and sessions; and composed jingles for many major corporations.

After her conversion to Catholicism, she took a pilgrimage to Israel where, on the last day, she met her husband who was traveling from Seattle. They were married in 1994, breaking Ms. Gibson from the professional music scene.

She and her husband, Matthew, have moved to the quiet woods of Montana, though she stays busy traveling.

Ms. Gibson's songs include, word-for-word, prayers from the Bible and well-known prayers of the Church. She has recorded two albums: "Prayers from Heaven and to Heaven" and "That We May be One," word-for-word in the first person from John 17:24-26.