THIS month see the Bournemouth Folk Club present two special shows at the Skinner Street Church in Poole. The first is popular Bournemouth band Fearne, who take to the stage this evening.

Acoustic trio Fearne will make the Bournemouth Folk Club show their last for the year before they embark on a series of summer festival dates and head into the studio. They have become a popular fixture in Dorset over the past five years.

Best known as an indie band, 2014 saw the start of a change in musical direction for the Bournemouth-born group, Alex, Nick and Adam.

Nick Bryson told the Echo at the time: “We've come full circle as we started off as quite a soft folk band and then pushed into indie. Now we've come back to writing songs again, rather than writing songs that we thought we should write.”

Support on the night comes from Jack Grace and Beartown Zodiac.

Later this month sees folk duo Paul Sartin (oboe, fiddle, voice) and Paul Hutchinson (piano accordion), otherwise known as Belshazzar's Feast at the Poole venue on May 23. Since 1995 they have shared a musical passion borne out of the desire to earn sufficient money to support their extravagant lifestyles.

Luckily for them, their amazing musicianship coupled with wry humour, has been stunning audiences around Europe and the States ever since. Paul Sartin is a member of the multi-BBC Radio 2 Award-winning big band Bellowhead and of Faustus.

He is also consultant and director of the Andover Museum Loft Singers, an artist in residence with Bellowhead at the Southbank Centre, editor of music publications, and a BASCA-nominated composer whose commissions include works for the Central School of Speech and Drama, the Choir of Somerville College, Oxford, and Streetwise Opera.

Paul Hutchinson is the founder member of the innovative and progressive folk band, The Playford Liberation Front. His highly successful folk trio Hoover the Dog has recently morphed into the quartet Pagoda. Paul's own compositions were published in 2012 (Food For Thought) and a second volume is in the pipeline.

He is the resident accordion tutor at Cecil Sharp House and is a seasoned tutor at Folkworks and Halsway Manor and leads ensemble workshops far and wide.

They start with traditional folk music, add a touch of classical and jazz, throw in a bit of pop and music hall, and top it off with some jovial wit for a unique live experience.

: For ticket information on upcoming performances visit bournemouthfolkclub.co.uk