A TEEN folk trio are returning to Weymouth to perform on Saturday August 22.

Granny’s Attic will play at St Edmund’s Church Hall, following their concert last year.

Last year the trio, consisting of George Sansome, Lewis Wood and Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne, received a nomination for the BBC Young Folk Awards held at The Royal Albert Hall.

The Worcestershire trio - all aged 20 - still love to busk on the streets.

They go back a long way, having met at secondary school.

The trio soon began playing at school concerts and local events.

George, 18, said: “I’m not sure how quickly it happened. We were together for two or three years before we started gigging.

“It escalated and we started doing more and more gigs.

“A good friend of ours said: ‘Go for the Young Folk Awards’. It was a complete surprise that we got as far as we did – we weren’t expecting to be nominated at all.”

Both Cohen and Lewis have strong links to Dorset, with Cohen having grandparents living in Charmouth and Lewis’s grandparents living in Bridport.

The trio have many folk influences. For Cohen it’s Peter Bellamy, for George it’s Nic Jones and for Lewis it’s Dave Swarbrick.

*The doors at St Edmunds hall will be open at 6.30pm with a support act playing from 6.45pm. There will also be a licensed bar.

Tickets cost £10, call 07840 326866 or 01305 787970 or email rod62@hotmail.co.uk

*Back on British soil, Dr Hook featuring Ray Sawyer return to Lighthouse, Poole’s centre for the arts, on Sunday October 18 with their new show, Hooked On Hits – Final Tour.

Ray is the eye-patched singer and percussionist who shared lead vocals during Dr Hook’s most successful years, fronting the band for international hit singles including The Cover of Rolling Stone and live favourites like Freakin’ at the Freakers Ball.

The band that became Dr Hook & the Medicine Show, shortened in 1975 to Dr Hook, was formed around Union City, New Jersey in 1967 by Ray Sawyer with fellow Southerners in exile, George Cummings and Billy Francis.

They drafted in Dennis Locorriere, initially as bassist, but eventually he took on a share of the lead vocals.

From their breakthrough in 1972 with Sylvia’s Mother, to their final hit, Baby Makes Her Blue Jeans Talk a decade later, Dr Hook enjoyed string of chart singles on both sides of the Atlantic including A Little Bit More, a cover of Sam Cooke’s Only Sixteen, Sharing the Night Together, Sexy Eyes, Better Love Next Time and the million-selling British number one When You’re In Love With a Beautiful Woman.

Born and raised in Alabama, Ray Sawyer has been a professional musician since the age of 14.

His trademark eye patch – prompting the reference to Captain Hook that gave the band its name – is the result of losing an eye in a near-fatal car crash in 1967 in Oregon where he was about to embark on a new career as a logger.

During his recovery he resolved to go back to music, returned to the East Coast, formed Dr Hook and the rest is history.

Contact the venue for tickets.

JOANNA DAVIS