Hold On. The story of a song written on a young man's death in Vermont and sung in Minneapolis

[erronis]

https://www.rumblestripvermont.com/episodes/hold-on

Erica Heilmann is a gifted listener and raconteur. Her story on Finn is incredibly powerful. If you have a chance, listen to come of her episodes.

This is a story about a song.

Six years ago, seventeen-year-old Finn Rooney killed himself in his home in Walden, Vermont. A couple days later, his community held a bonfire in the parking lot of Hazen Union High school in Hardwick. Hundreds of people came. Tom Gilbert, who organized the bonfire, asked his friend Heidi Wilson to write a song for the occasion. The song was called Hold On. She made sure it was a song everyone could sing. And they did.

Now people are singing this song all over the world. People in Minneapolis have been singing it to ICE agents. They're singing it for their neighbors who are afraid to leave their houses. They're singing it in Wales and Australia and Ireland in solidarity with the people of Minneapolis. Peole are singing it all over, to give each other some comfort and some courage.

This is a story about where that song came from and where it's gone.

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[Javaman]

1. very powerful song.

must be sung at every single protest.