Quickdraw Performs Friday in Glen Cove

Downtown Sounds, the music series presented by the Glen Cove Downtown BID and City of Glen Cove, continues Friday with Quickdraw. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Glen Cove Village Square.

Members of Quickdraw have performed as Eddie Money’s backing band, playing hits "Two Tickets to Paradise," "Baby Hold On To Me," "I Wanna Go Back," and more.  The band’s Steve Ronsen is Money's musical director for Money’s play "Two Tickets to Paradise,"

Ronson along with bandmate Kevin Hawkins wrote the song  “America & Me,” which is featured in the movie "Moving McAllister" starring Jon Heder and Mila Kunis.

After leading a pop-rock band with Tony Award winning singer/actress Idina Menzel (Broadway shows “Wicked” and “Rent,” and the FOX show “Glee”), band members founded Quickdraw, releasing two albums “Quickdraw” and “America and Me.” 

Hawkins says musical influences include “every juke box in every dive bar we ever warmed a barstool in….. the dives always have the best jukeboxes!”

Ronsen adds “we have heard comparisons vocally to The Eagles and Keith Urban as well as musically to Lynyryd Skynyrd, Zack Brown Band, Montgomery Gentry, Brooks & Dunn but whatever it may be it touches people and satisfies us and that’s what’s important.”

Based out of Nashville for two years, Steve Ronsen and Kevin Hawkins were touring with some of the top acts in country music while penning all the songs for Quickdraw a SONY/ USA Networks "Nashville Star" finalist with whom they have toured.

The band features Steve Ronsen on lead vocals and lead guitars, Keith Hawkins on bass and backup vocals, Dave Glatter on lead and slide guitars, Bill Marino on lead and slide guitars, and Tom Pantaleo on drums and backup vocals.