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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


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