Tom Callinan performs

(WTNH) - Tom Callinan is more than a multi-faceted performing artist. In 1977, after five years of successful teaching in a Connecticut junior high school, Callinan launched a full-time career in the creative and performing arts.

Annually he presents several hundred performances for tens of thousands of people, spanning nursery schools through nursing homes.

Since 1973, he has performed with the popular folk band, The Morgans, representing them as business manager since 1977. In 1991, he was designated Connecticut's first "Official State Troubadour" through legislation by The General Assembl