June Callahan on the porch steps at dusk with her guitar across her lap

Kitchen Light, the new record · out January 15

Small rooms,
this winter.

Twelve nights across the South and back to West Virginia. Seated shows, no openers, songs and the stories behind them.

Jan 22Nashville, TNThe Fern RoomTickets
Jan 24Atlanta, GALittle HarlowFew left
Jan 25Decatur, GAA living roomHosted
Jan 29Asheville, NCHollow Pine HallSold out
Jan 31Durham, NCCotton Mill HallTickets

All twelve datesPresale goes to the letter first.

“The quietest room in town was the Fern Room, and it was full.” Rook & Rye Radio

The cover of Kitchen Light: a kitchen window at night with one warm bulb over the sink

Ten songs · 37 minutes · recorded in four days in a house in East Nashville · produced by Wes Arden

The new record · January 15

Kitchen Light

Written at one kitchen table between 5 and 7 in the morning, before the lunch shift, over three winters. The songs are about the people you cook for and the ones who don’t come home for supper anymore.

SpotifyStream
Apple MusicStream
BandcampVinyl, CD & download
YouTubeLive from the kitchen

Tour · winter 2027

Small rooms.

Jan 15Nashville, TNThe Fern RoomRelease night, with strings Sold out
Jan 16Nashville, TNThe Fern RoomSecond night, added Few left
Jan 22Nashville, TNThe Fern RoomSeated, 140 Tickets
Jan 24Atlanta, GALittle HarlowSeated, 90 Few left
Jan 25Decatur, GAA living roomHouse concert, 45 guests Hosted
Jan 29Asheville, NCHollow Pine HallSeated, 200 Sold out
Jan 31Durham, NCCotton Mill HallSeated, 160 Tickets
Feb 1Chapel Hill, NCA barn loftHouse concert, 60 guests Hosted
Feb 5Richmond, VARosebank TheaterSeated, 300 Tickets
Feb 7Charlottesville, VAA farmhouse kitchenHouse concert, 35 guests Hosted
Feb 12Louisville, KYThe Lantern RoomSeated, 180 Presale Dec 1
Feb 14Elkins, WVThe old opera houseHometown show Presale Dec 1

House concerts are private: the host invites, and the address goes to guests the week of. Want one in your town? Host a night.

A house concert by the fireplace, June on a stool and thirty guests on couches and the floor — Decatur, Georgia · a living room · 41 guests

House concerts

Your living room, one night.

1.
You pick a night and a room
A living room, a barn loft, a backyard in October. Thirty to sixty friends is the sweet spot.
2.
You invite, I bring the songs
Two sets of forty minutes, the stories behind them, and no amplifier unless the room needs one.
3.
Guests chip in at the door
A suggested $25 each. If the hat comes in under $900, the guarantee covers the difference.
4.
We eat afterwards
Potluck is tradition. I’ll sign records on your kitchen counter until the last dish is dry.

Admit thirty to sixty$900 guarantee$250 holds the date · travel within 300 miles of Nashville included

Host a night

Story

Kitchen table, 5 a.m.

I grew up in Elkins, West Virginia, in my grandmother’s kitchen, where the radio was always on and nobody was allowed to talk over the Saturday night show. She taught me three chords on a guitar that had belonged to her brother and told me the fourth one I’d have to find myself.

I moved to Nashville in 2014 with that guitar and a waitressing apron. For six years I worked the lunch shift at a meat-and-three on the east side, and I wrote in the two hours before it, at the kitchen table of a rented half-house, while the coffee went cold.

That light, the one over the sink before the sun is up, is where every song on the new record started. So that’s what I called it.

June

A kitchen table at dawn with a guitar leaning on a chair, a notebook and a cup of coffee — The kitchen table, 6:10 a.m.

“Songs that sound like they were written at five in the morning, because they were.”
The Porch Review
“Callahan sings about small kitchens and makes them feel like cathedrals.”
Southern Lantern
“The quietest room in town was the Fern Room, and it was full.”
Rook & Rye Radio

The road

Last winter, mostly.

Atlanta · Little Harlow · last January
Richmond · five minutes to doors
Somewhere on Route 64
East Nashville · cutting “Second Shift”
Nashville · the Fern Room, soundcheck

Shop

From the merch table.

Kitchen Light, on vinyl$28
Cream vinyl, a lyric sheet, ships January 15
Tea towel$18
Denim blue cotton, “Leave the light on” stitched in rust
Signed CD$15
In a kraft sleeve, signed at the kitchen table

The letter.

Once a month, from the kitchen table: a new song in progress, where I’m playing, and the presale code the day before tickets go public.

Home

East Nashville.

Where the record was made, in a house with rugs on every wall, and where the winter run starts and ends. The Fern Room is a ten-minute walk from my kitchen.

House concerts go anywhere within 300 miles of Nashville at no extra cost: Atlanta, Asheville, Louisville, Birmingham, Knoxville.

**East Nashville** Home, the studio, and the Fern Room Open the map

Questions

Before the show.

Are the shows seated?

All of them. Listening rooms are seated and quiet, and the house concerts are on couches, kitchen chairs and the floor. Bring a cushion.

Can I bring my kids?

Listening rooms are 18 and up unless the page says otherwise. House concerts are up to the host, and most are family-friendly.

How big a room do I need to host?

Big enough for thirty people to sit within twenty feet of the guitar. I’ve played kitchens, lofts, porches and one very large bathroom.

Do you play weddings?

A few a year: the ceremony and a short set at dinner, just me and the guitar. Book below and tell me about the day.

Where does presale come from?

The letter. Everyone on it gets a code the day before tickets go public.

Book June

A room, a night.

House concerts, listening rooms and a few private evenings a year. Pick a night, tell me about the room, and I’ll text you within the day.

House concert$900 guarantee · $250 holds it
Listening roomDoor split or guarantee · $300 holds it
Ceremony & dinner set$1,800 · $500 holds it

1Service
2Date
3Details

Book a night

House concertTwo sets, 30 to 60 guests $900 guarantee Listening room or venueDoor split or guarantee From $1,200 Wedding ceremony & dinner setJust June and the guitar $1,800 Songwriting workshopTwo hours, up to 15 writers $450

Small rooms,this winter.