The Songwriter
“Sweet William” Ennis is a singer/song writer who has lived in Palatka Florida for nearly four decades. His original songs written over the span of fifty years covers multi genres and subjects including love, war & environment in the styles of Folk, Country & Blues. On August 26th 2018, he won the North Central Florida Blues Regional Solo Challenge and represented North Central Florida in the 2019 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee. Also an award winning songwriter, songs of the Santa Fe and Suwannee Rivers brought recognition with 7 Best of Genre and 3rd and 1st place winners in the Santa Fe River and Suwannee River Song Contests. His acoustic finger pick style weaves through songs of his life with a simple feel of storytelling and his his deep resonant voice grabs the essence of his stories that he tells.
The Sweet William Trio
The Sweet William Trio is a blend of talent with very different roots which adds and creates body and depth in original music. Sweet William, Billy Ennis, 35 years in Palatka is a singer-songwriter with a deep resonate voice and finger picks his stories and songs. Lori Baxter, born a South Florida hippie-chick who moved to Georgetown, adds a folk style bass guitar and sweet vocal accompaniment. From Hastings Joe Murray’s, experience in playing rock percussion gives the trio a distinction that blends our folk, blues and rock originals. Sweet William is the North Central Florida Blues Society 2018 solo winner, 2019 Santa Fe River Song Contest Best in Folk and the 2021 Suwannee River Song Contest over All First Place winner, you’ll hear down home songs of Florida!