SHOWDOWN BAND
- Joe Vermetti
Founder ’77/Guitar/vocals - Steve Ewers
Drums/vocals since ’88 - Charlie McGeehan
Keys/bass/Vocals since ’93 - Tim Ellsworth
Bass/guitar/vocals since ’08
Showdown Band has opened for the following national acts: Journey (Common Ground Festival – Lansing), LoverBoy, 38 Special, CCR, Rick Springfield (Kewadin Casino – Sault Ste. Marie), The Lovin Spoonful (National Blueberry Festival – South Haven), Rare Earth, Quiet Riot, Rick Derringer, Pat Traverse [ twice].
Plus headlined Kewadin Casino in the Soo at Dream Makers Theater several times, Four Winds – New Buffalo, Victories – Petosky, Odawa – Petoskey, Kewadin – St. Ignace, Kewadin – Manistique, Soaring Eagle – Mt. Pleasant, Indiana Live! – Indianapolis, FireKeepers – Battle Creek.