Bono and The Edge are set to accept the 2025 Woody Guthrie Prize on behalf of U2 on October 21 in Tulsa at Cain's Ballroom.
The Woody Guthrie Center Senior Director Cady Shaw will deliver remarks at the fundraising evening. Woody Guthrie's granddaughter Anna Canoni will share her family's appreciation of U2 as the standard bearers of Woody's legacy.
The announcement from the Woody Guthrie Center notes 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."
Bono and The Edge will return to Cain's Ballroom - for the first time since U2's 1981 show on the U.S. leg of The Boy Tour - to accept the award and participate in an onstage conversation about the band's music.
"U2 embodies the mission of the Woody Guthrie Prize, using music to confront injustice and inspire action,' said Shaw. "By presenting the 2025 Woody Guthrie Prize to U2, we honor a legacy of music that continues to challenge who we are and connect us the world over."
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