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"HOLD ON"
Winner of 2023 Telly Award Silver Prize for Best Social Video (Dance & Performance)
"Hold On"
Negro Spiritual / Freedom Song
Setting by Nolan Williams, Jr.
Nolan Williams, Jr., artistic director
Kevin Parisi, video director
Xavier Mack, associate director
Music produced by Nolan Williams, Jr. and Robert Ellis
Choreographed and performed by
Xavier Mack, Bianca Melidor, Terrell Rogers Jr., and Isabel Wallace-Green
Filmed on location at Griggs Park and Klyde Warren Park, Dallax, TX
Monique Steele Griffiths, soprano
Nova Y. Payton, soprano
Vocals recorded at Bias Studios, Springfield, VA
Engineered by Brian Jacobs
Photographic images by Sam Teague
Additional images by Jack Delano, Bernard Gotfryd, Warren K. Leffler, Jim Peppler, Peter Pettus, Rowland Scherman, and Marian Trikosko, courtesy of The Library of Congress and the Alabama Department of Archives and History
Footage courtesy of The Library of Congress
Special acknowledgements:
Georgetown University, The March On Washington Film Festival, Darryl Mayes, William Lynn Wallace, Gloria J. Williams
WETA/PBS FEATURE ON 'GRACE, the musical'
Nominated for 2023 Regional Emmy Award
Produced by Judy Meschel