Overview
Overview
TOM CALLINAN is a folksinger, songwriter, storyteller, and multi-instrumentalist from Norwich, CT. He has been a full-time performing artist since 1977, equally at home with a symphony orchestra, in a solo concert, or telling stories with his wife, Ann Shapiro. For 50 years, he was the business manager and a performing member of The Morgans, one of Connecticut’s premier Irish, folk, and sea music ensembles. Tom has composed so many songs about Connecticut’s people, places, and events that he was designated Connecticut’s first Official State Troubadour in 1991. Excerpts from two of his original songs were included in an Emmy Award-winning documentary, A Connecticut Yankee In Red Square, produced by Connecticut Public Television. To date, he has released over twenty solo albums and has appeared on over a dozen others with various artists. [2026 Connecticut Music Festival Website]