The Secret of Sound: Sing Stirringly and Carry a Big Sound

With explosive, progressive and electric sounds, the Speakeasys aren’t your run-of-the-mill rock band. Harkening back to the days of prohibition; the intimacy between musician and audience in cramp jazz clubs and juke joints, the quartet with it’s stew of influences: blues, soul, and classic rock jam gives new meaning to words “musical experience”. Imagine the elegant spontaneity of Ella Fitzgerald matched with Derek Trucks, led by Led Zeppelin’s rhythm section and you’ll be close to the sound of the Speakeasys. Their live performances are fueled by improvisation, skilled musicianship, and worship of music guaranteeing an unforgettable experience.

The story of the Speakeasys is the story of their sound: a little improvisation here, a whole pot full of talent there, and you get a stew of heart-pumping sound and melodies. Lead singer, Sarah Seminski and Eric Reardon, a 14 year old guitar virtuoso at the time, met at a Hurricane Katrina benefit in Saugus in 2005. Sarah asked Eric if she could accompany him on a rendition of “Stir it Up” by Bob Marley and the two have been playing together ever since. World traveled drummer, Rory Walsh, who played with the likes of Herbie Hancock, met the Speakeasys just as he was planning on retiring from the music scene. After seeing Sarah and Eric perform at the Pig’s Eye he was taken by their synergy and quickly became an integral part of the band, adding a wave of emotionally driven beats and contributing his experience and passion for music. It was Rory who searched and found the band’s missing rhythm section link in Chris Noyes, a multi instrumentalist with experience playing bass, brass and wind instruments.

If the band has one very simple mission it’s this: to play their hearts out to as many people as possible. The stage is their bedroom, and we all know that with the right elements, that’s where “the magic happens."

The Speakeasys never forget the “fifth” and perhaps most important member of the band: their audience. Like a Southern Baptist revival, lead singer Sarah Seminski is a cross between a resurrected Janis Joplin and preacher: there’s not a piece of her that doesn’t get electrified when singing, sending forth streaks of intensity and fire to every listener in the crowd, to the bottoms of their rubber soled feet. And just like a revival, you, the listener have a role to play in the creation of the Speakeasys sound; the band pride itself in the inclusion of the audience in its improvisations. The Speakeasys are a “call and response” musical experience; the greater the response to their music, the higher the band ascends to new musical depths.

The Speakeasys have played all over the north shore of Boston, Somerville, Cambridge, and most of New Hampshire with plans to play the East Coast and beyond.

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