Four Piece Suit performs their music featured on top shows & film

Four Piece Suit comes to MLT’s Summer of Music Series on Saturday, August 31, at 8 p.m. bringing their predominantly instrumental music, humor, romance and pulsing category-defying range of rhythm that has been featured on in films and on favorite TV show soundtracks including “Sex and the City” and “Dexter."

The sexy, sophisticated, yet tongue-in-cheek music of Four Piece Suit has been frequently featured on the highly acclaimed HBO series Sex and the City, and on Telemundo, NBC’s Ed, Dexter on CBS, and cable shows such as Keeping Up with the Kardashians, America’s Top Model, Run’s House, and many others. Film work includes Our Lips are Sealed (Olsen Twins), In the Weeds (Molly Ringwald), Stag (HBO films), Psycho Beach Party, Along Came Polly (Jennifer Aniston), and others.

Four Piece Suit is described as “a highball of sea-foam-soaked guitar and squalling tenor sax, shaken—not stirred—with surf tangos, Battista-era mambos, beach blanket boppers, spy music, crime jazz, and movie themes.”

The band features Milt Reder on guitar, Jeff Giacomelli on sax, David Becker on bass and Seth Pappas on drums. Their eclectic instrumental, sometimes jazz, sometimes rock style, brings forth a unique blend of long forgotten musical influences and often suggests a certain film noir feeling.

The band has also been heard in independent films, including Sundance Festival Winner Blue Vinyl and a full score for an HBO claymation film, Real Men Wear Hawaiian Shirts, an award winner at the San Francisco Film Festival.

Four Piece Suit has released three CDs: Ready to Where?, Matinee Idylls, and Spirito, available on itunes and CDbaby.com. Even as their CDs and film work introduce them to new audiences, it is the “uncharted waters” of their live performances which create the word-of-mouth that brings in legions of loyal fans, playing to crowds of 50 to 50,000.

Like many of the greatest bands, only at a live show can one really “get” what Four Piece Suit is all about. For more information on the band, please visit www.fourpiecesuitband.com.

Future MLT Summer of Music Open Mic Nights held on Thursdays are scheduled for August 29, September 5, and September 12. Admission is $5 at the door for audience members and performers. Sign-in for performers begins at 7 p.m. The music will begin at 7:30 p.m. and will run approximately two hours. Open mic nights are open to performers of all ages.

All Summer of Music events are hosted in MLT’s Firehouse Theatre at 12 School St. in Marblehead. The series is produced by Craig VanRemoortel.

Started in 1955, the award-winning Marblehead Little Theatre is one of the oldest community theatre groups in New England, having consistently presented live-theater productions and performances for over six decades.

For more information about Marblehead Little Theatre and the Music of Summer open mic nights and featured performers for upcoming concerts, visit mltlive.org.