“May the Fourth” be with you for a special “Star Wars” celebration concert in the Maintenance Shop for the final concert of the semester.

Making their live debut, The Han Solo Project plays the M-Shop on May 4, supported by professor turned hip-hop artist, Slice the Celestial Sorcerer, and alt-rockers Strong Like Bear.

The Han Solo Project is (mostly) a duo, started by Mike Bal and Tom Hummer, that write and play songs themed around the “Star Wars” franchise. Their music style hits all sorts of genres like bluesy rock and roll, high energy club beats and thrashing punk. Tracks in their discography include “Chewbaklava,” “Boba Fettish” and “Carbonite Blues.”

Expect to see the band fully decked-out in “Star Wars” garb for their performance. Bal and Hummer will be slipping into the roles of fan-favorite scoundrels, Chewbacca and Han Solo respectively. The pair are joined by Nick Kaizer, Patrick Hummer and Jon Hummer for the show.

“We’ve got at least one guy dressed as a Jedi, and I’m trying to get the other to dress as Darth Vader,” Bal said. “He’s complaining about being able to do backup vocals in the Darth Vader mask, so we’ll see.”

The project started as a band with Hummer’s brothers while Bal and Tom Hummer were attending Iowa State about 10 years ago.

“It was kind of a joke,” Bal said. “We were really bad at working titles for songs, and our singer is a really bad procrastinator in terms of writing the lyrics.”

The band would write full instrumentals to songs without really knowing what they’d be about. They were left with joke working titles as “Tears of a Wookie” and “Hoth = Fun” to mess with the singer.

By the time the band had graduated, found jobs and moved back to Ames, Disney had announced the resurrection of “Star Wars” with 2015’s “The Force Awakens.” Over the years, the Bal and Hummer had acquired enough musical equipment to record songs they’d had on the backburner.

Bal is the bigger “Star Wars” fan of the two, coming up with ideas while watching the movies and TV shows and reading comics, then assigning Hummer “research” to piece together lyrics.

“Tom’s a big English/word geek, so half the things he says are puns,” Bal said. “The other half I say are coming from movies, so it just kind of works out that way.”

Bal said the duo had a great time writing their first album, “The Force Hits Snooze,” the whole process taking only two weeks. By the third album they felt the songwriting had gotten better and production had gone up and they were ready to make their live performance debut.

The Han Solo Project’s debut album inadvertently predicted the death of their namesake with the song “Tears of a Wookie” in their first album. The song was released before Han Solo bit the dust on the big screen, but that didn’t stop their friends from placing the blame on them.

“It doesn’t include Han Solo’s death in there, it’s a sad Chewbacca song,” Bal said. “But we had a bunch of people go ‘too soon, too soon’ after the movie played. … We didn’t predict he was going to die, obviously, so we felt a little bit bad about that one.”

Tickets for the May 4 concert are $8 to the public, $6 with a student ID. The show starts at 8 p.m., doors open at 7:30 p.m.