As 2005 draws to a close, The Pegasus Coffee House features two performers this week who should appeal to the young and the young at heart, Ned Thorne and Doug Dawson.

Ned Thorne sang in the Bainbridge High School jazz choir and played electric bass in the high school jazz band, but it wasn’t until he went away to college at Whitman in Spokane that his musical inclinations bloomed.

“I played and wrote music all the time,” he said. “There was this big explosive material coming out.”

Thorne will present a concert of his music 7:30 p.m. Dec. 28 at the Pegasus Coffee House, 131 Parfitt Way, Bainbridge Island.

Thorne graduated from Whitman with a double major in theater and English, and hopes to become a filmmaker. He plans on moving to New York at the end of January, but in the meantime is signed on to play Einstein in the upcoming Bainbridge Performing Arts production of “Picasso at the Lapine Agile.”

He describes his music, on acoustic guitar, as “indie folk rock,” in the manner of Bell and Sebastian or Nick Drake, with elements of The Beatles and gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt thrown in.

“The lyrics are drawn from personal experience or what I could make up for the song at the time,” he said.

Thorne may be joined for the show by his older brother John, whom he said has been influential in his development as a musician.

“He knows five languages and learned guitar on his own. I think I have some of the same instincts.”

Doug Dawson comes out of recording studio seclusion for the Pegasus show, so expect to hear tunes from his first CD at the show.

The young, solo acoustic artist describes his music as a “folky-alt-rock-country-whatever-sort-of-thing.”

He’s been compared to Toad the Wet Sprocket and The Bare Naked Ladies. Influences run from R.E.M. and Blue Rodeo to James Taylor and The Indigo Girls.

Dawson plays 7:30 p.m. Dec. 30 at the Pegasus.

Both shows are sponsored by Island Music Guild, with admission a suggested $4 donation for the artists. There is no show scheduled for Dec. 31 and the coffeehouse will be closed, but there will be the regular open mic on Jan. 1. wu