Illumination's Information
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Palm Beach Gardens, FL
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Roots/Americana
About Us:
In a case of perfect timing,
Illumination formed in 2007. Roots
music singer/songwriter Suzanne Cannon
was recording tracks at Elegbaland
Studios in Lake Worth and engineer
Marc Ward was playing music by other
clients he'd recorded. When he cued up
Ginny Meredith's classically-trained
(and Irish and bluegrass-influenced)
violin playing, Cannon was transfixed
and inquired about her. Illumination
was born as a duo, and Meredith's
violin and vocal harmonies proved to
be the perfect compliments to Cannon's
blues/pop/country compositions, voice
and finger-picked guitar patterns. The
two even formed an eclectic and
unpredictable list of cover songs by
the likes of Men at Work, the Dixie
Chicks, Metallica, Sheryl Crow, Crash
Test Dummies and Green Day.
The group started to grow in 2008, as
Meredith's husband Bill Meredith made
Illumination a trio as a
percussionist/vocalist. In 2009, John
Smotherman turned the trio into a
quartet by adding his dobro and vocals
to the mix. The two had worked
together in the heralded 1990-1992
South Florida variety act, Lite-N-Up,
improvisational trio Blatant
Disregard, and rock act the PowerCats,
and currently play together in Bob
Dylan cover band Big Brass Bed, (all
with Meredith on drums and Smotherman
on guitar) where they met bassist Bill
Rabon who joined Illumination in the
Summer of 2010. You can also hear
Rabon playing with the popular
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