SWEETWATER SUNDAY MUSIC SERIES

OPEN MIKE 12 noon to 1 pm & 3 to 4 pm         Sunday Market Free and Open to Public 12 noon to 4 pm

Featured performers each Sunday, at 1 pm and 2 pm representing the best of Florida Music

March 15:
1 pm John "Papos" Frassica

2 pm Ella Jett (11 year old singer/songwriter sensation!)

Ella Jett

John "Papos" Frassica

Papos is a singer songwriter who will bring a special Irish flavor to his set this Sunday.  He has been a farm favorite when he has played in years past.  Papos is originally from Boston but the weather and people for the last 20 years have kept him warm in Tampa. He writes: "I have realized that our time here is limited. I spend a small portion of each day playing music. This part of my day has become the most important. We live our lives so fast we cannot see what is coming. We find ourselves in a world we do not recognize and wonder how we got there. As each moment slips by we come closer to the last moment of our life. I want my last moment to bring me to a place where I have no regrets."   He will bring this warm spirit to sweetwater on Sunday.

Ella Jet Vessenmeyer  -- must be seen to be believed!!  She is a sassy go-getter with a smile that could melt the North Pole. She lives in St. Petersburg and turned 11 in December. The young singer/songwriter learned her first guitar chord, a D, in February 2008. She now writes and plays entire songs on the acoustic, while singing and expressing her words with natural ease.  The daughter of Experimental Pilot's Stephen Vessenmeyer and wife Jody, and the niece of Experimental Pilot's Robert Vessenmeyer, Ella Jet grew up around people playing music. She wanted to get in on the action and asked her older brother, Noah, 15, to coach her. These days she performs as part of Experimental Pilot shows and has done solo sets at the Whistlestop (Girls with Guitars night) and other venues. Here is a link to Ella Jet's video from her "Sonic Detour" show on WMNF a few months ago  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm54kuz0WsY

IF YOU HAVE OR KNOWN YOUNG PEOPLE WHO NEED INSPIRATION, BRING THEM TO SEE ELLA!!!

UPCOMING

March 22: D, D, & J (Denise Moore, Dennis Devine, John McEwen); Mark Carufel