Director: David Griffin
Assistant Director: Nicole Wilkinson
Choreographers: Alisabeth Von Presley & Lovar D. Kidd
Franklin Middle School
Classic Illumination Show Choir
The award-winning, Classic Illumination, is an auditioned choir of 47 seventh and eighth grade students from Franklin Middle School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In the past five show choir seasons CI has taken home 9 Grand Champion Awards, 8 Runner-up Awards along with (2) third place finishes. The students have been preparing for this year’s show since September and they look forward to the show choir competition season, which includes; Washington High School’s “Mo-Show”, Kennedy High School’s “Raise the Roof”, Indianola’s “Encounter 2024”, and Fort Madison’s “Stars in the Spotlight”.
This year’s show includes the songs “Legendary” from the Broadway Musical Bring It On along with “Whose House is This” from Mean Girls and “Centuries” from the Fall Out Boys, a girls medley featuring Taylor Swift’s “Look What You made Me Do”, Destiny Child’s “I’m A Survivor” and Gloria Gaynor’s smash hit, “I Will Survive”, “Go Big or Go Home” by American Authors, “Just Look Up” by Ariana Grande and a Beetle Juice Medley, featuring the songs, “Say My Name” and “That Beautiful Sound”.
Classic Illumination is under the direction of David Griffin, who is in his 33rd year of teaching Middle School Choral Music in the State of Iowa, with tech director Nicole Wilkinson and student choreography assistants, Emma Grantham, Piper White and Anna Rambo. Band members include Aiden Reed on guitar, Joy Sheyko on keys and Zach Feller on drums. Choreographers for this year’s show are Lovar Davis Kidd and Alisabeth Von Presley.
Classic Illumination Show Choir
The award-winning, Classic Illumination, is an auditioned choir of 47 seventh and eighth grade students from Franklin Middle School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In the past five show choir seasons CI has taken home 9 Grand Champion Awards, 8 Runner-up Awards along with (2) third place finishes. The students have been preparing for this year’s show since September and they look forward to the show choir competition season, which includes; Washington High School’s “Mo-Show”, Kennedy High School’s “Raise the Roof”, Indianola’s “Encounter 2024”, and Fort Madison’s “Stars in the Spotlight”.
This year’s show includes the songs “Legendary” from the Broadway Musical Bring It On along with “Whose House is This” from Mean Girls and “Centuries” from the Fall Out Boys, a girls medley featuring Taylor Swift’s “Look What You made Me Do”, Destiny Child’s “I’m A Survivor” and Gloria Gaynor’s smash hit, “I Will Survive”, “Go Big or Go Home” by American Authors, “Just Look Up” by Ariana Grande and a Beetle Juice Medley, featuring the songs, “Say My Name” and “That Beautiful Sound”.
Classic Illumination is under the direction of David Griffin, who is in his 33rd year of teaching Middle School Choral Music in the State of Iowa, with tech director Nicole Wilkinson and student choreography assistants, Emma Grantham, Piper White and Anna Rambo. Band members include Aiden Reed on guitar, Joy Sheyko on keys and Zach Feller on drums. Choreographers for this year’s show are Lovar Davis Kidd and Alisabeth Von Presley.