U2 recently shared a video on YouTube of Bono and The Edge performing at the Woody Guthrie Prize ceremony and in conversation with T Bone Burnett.
On October 21, lead vocalist Bono and lead guitarist the Edge accepted the Woody Guthrie Prize on behalf of U2 at Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
At the awards ceremony, Bono and Edge performed a surprise acoustic set and shared an extended conversation with producer and musician T Bone Burnett.
The Irish rock band shared the live performance of five songs from the night on YouTube. The songs include "Running to Stand Still," "Sunday Bloody Sunday," "One, Pride (In the Name of Love)" - with a snippet of Guthrie's "Jesus Christ - and Yahweh."
Bono and the Edge returned to Cain's Ballroom for the first time since U2's 1981 show on the U.S. leg of The Boy Tour.
The Woody Guthrie Center Senior Director Cady Shaw delivered remarks at the fundraising evening. Woody Guthrie's granddaughter Anna Canoni also shared her family's appreciation of U2 as the standard bearers of Woody's legacy.
At the time of the announcement, the Woody Guthrie Center noted that "the award 'recognizes a recipient who embodies the spirit of Woody Guthrie's social consciousness and musical legacy. In their art and in their actions, U2 band members Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. continue a tradition of using music as a force for social change, echoing Guthrie's belief that songs can help make the world a fairer place."
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