Callaghan - 'The Music You Gave To Me' Tour plus support, Tom Bright

Three time BBC Radio 2 play-listed artist, Callaghan, releases her stunning new album, ‘The Music You Gave To Me’ on May 16, along with a new UK headline tour. “The most personal album I’ve ever written or recorded” is how Callaghan sums up her latest album. A collection of 8 tracks featuring some of the most personal and heart wrenching subject matter that she has ever tackled. Putting these particular songs to tape was a major step in what has been an incredibly difficult couple of years for the singer-songwriter after losing her dad, John, to lung cancer in 2023. During his short but brutal battle with the illness, Callaghan had been writing something special. A song for her dad, called “The Music You Gave To Me”. A thank you to the person who had taught her her first chords on the guitar and piano, and made music such a huge part of her life. “It was all the things I couldn’t say to him”, Callaghan sighs, “but I just knew they needed saying somehow. He needed to know how much of a gift he’d given me and how much it meant to me.” Despite the pain of losing her dad and feeling very reticent to play or write music again, gradually Callaghan forced herself back to the piano, writing the rest of the album as a tribute to the person who made music such a big part of her life. To celebrate the launch of the album Callaghan created a special group called CALLAGHAN’S MUSIC RADIO CLUB where fans could tune into a special radio show/podcast each day and hear all about the...