AN ECLECTIC line-up of music is being played across Dorset this weekend, as well as comedy and the best of the West End and Broadway.

Fans of Simon and Garfunkel are in for a treat tonight when Bookends bring their greatest hits to Dorchester Arts Centre at 8pm.

Simon and Garfunkel – Through the Years, featuring Dan Haynes and Pete Richards, brings to life the unmistakable sounds of the duo.

The multimedia show, which is laden with hits including Homeward Bound, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Mrs Robinson and Scarborough Fair, also features narration written by Victoria Kingston, the author of Simon and Garfunkel – The Definitive Biography, and showcases their most memorable songs.

The result is a spell-binding experience with accurate live performances of the songs that have influenced a generation.

Dan and Pete perform with just a single guitar and two voices, which blend perfectly to recreate the perfect timing and diction that the duo was famous for.

Colin Thompson is also back on stage tonight, this time at Broadwindsor village hall, with the musical life and times of 17th century Irish harpist Turlough O’Carolan.

The show starts at 7.30pm.

Tomorrow you can enjoy a charity concert in aid of the Mercy Ships featuring well known local folk artists Ninebarrow and Paul Openshaw.

The concert is in the United Church in South Street, Dorchester, at 7pm and tickets are £5 from Harmony Music, the United Church Shop and online from paulopenshaw.com/shop Having played a sold-out gig at Langton Matravers on Wednesday, Jamie Smith’s Mabon are playing the Sturminster Newton Exchange tomorrow at 7.30pm.

The energetic sound of jigs and reels or a graceful mazurka, an ecstatic muinera, a haunting Welsh-language love-song or a driving sing-along fantasy epic – all are given the same refreshing, creative treatment as the band dances along the borders of Celtic heritage and contemporary sound.

If you’re looking for laughs, Josh Widdicombe is at Lighthouse in Poole on Sunday at 7.30pm.

With over 50 wonderful songs from Broadway musicals, the three Broadway Divas have wowed audiences in theatre and concert venues all over the country.

With stunning costumes and great musical arrangements and harmonies the Divas are bringing some of your favourite Broadway tunes as well as some secret gems that you may not have heard before, to Weymouth Pavilion on March 23 at 7.30pm.