U2 NAMED 2025 WOODY GUTHRIE PRIZE HONOREES

BONO AND THE EDGE ACCEPTING THE 2025 WOODY GUTHRIE PRIZE ON BEHALF OF U2, OCTOBER 21 AT CAIN'S BALLROOM

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The Woody Guthrie Center, based in Tulsa, OK, has named U2 as the 2025 Woody Guthrie Prize honorees. This prestigious award annually 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. A limited number of experience packages will be available for sponsors and members of the Woody Guthrie Center.

Learn more about the Woody Guthrie Prize here.

The 2025 Woody Guthrie Prize is presented by the Harper House Music Foundation.

Platinum Circle:

Frank Frasier

George Kaiser Family Foundation

Gibson Gives

Vincent LoVoi and Beatriz Pérez

Parker Brothers

Bronze Circle:

Monica Basu

Bob and Bonnie Darby

Bobby and Karen Darby

Ryan and Sarah Darby

Hardesty Family Foundation

Ken and Janet Levit

Oak View Group

Amy Santee

Ben Stewart

Tulsa Office of Film, Music, Arts & Culture

Tulsa Regional Chamber

Annie and Jeff Van Hanken

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ABOUT HARPER HOUSE MUSIC FOUNDATION (“HHMF”):

HHMF is centered around grantmaking to organizations serving musicians and investments that address “need gaps” where infrastructure and funding are lacking. HHMF has collaborated with and contributed to such vital charitable and educational organizations as the Americana Music Foundation, the Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie Centers, Berklee College of Music, Backline, Music Will, the Neal Casal Music Foundation, and Newport Festivals Foundation, while also working with such notable artists as Natalie Merchant, T-Bone Burnett, Rosanne Cash and Rhiannon Giddens. For more information, please visit harperhousemusicfoundation.org.

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Ken Weinstein

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