MTV Woodie Festival and Awards at SXSW All Access Exclusive Coverage

Posted On 28 Apr 2015

Tag: #award, #woodie, #woodieawards, #woodies, Austin, Radio, SXSW

Check out the MTVu Woodie Festival and Awards from Austin’s South by Southwest Music Festival.

MTVu took over Austin’s South by Southwest Festival to celebrate the best of college radio and emerging artists.

The festivities on March 20th were ignited by performances at the Woodie Festival. MisterWives, Action Bronson, Hoodie Allen, Rae Sremmurd, Ty Dolla $ign, Raury, Clean Bandit with Jess Glynne, Marina & the Diamonds, and Robert DeLong took the stage throughout the day.

Misterwives performs at the Woodie Festival, photo courtesy of MTV.

When the Woodie Awards started at 9pm, the rain and the revelers were ready. Jack Antonoff began the show with a medley about this year’s nominees as well as some tunes from his own band, Bleachers. James Bay and Years & Years performed during the show. Rockers Fall Out Boy played a medley of their hits before being inducted to the Hall of Wood, the award’s first. Rapper Big Sean played the show’s on-air finale then treated attendees to several more songs after the show completed. MTV’s, Nessa, co-hosted while Tove Lo and Zoe Kravitz provided support via video.

WPTS of the University of Pittsburgh won the year’s College Radio Woodie Award. Childish Gambino, nee Donald Glover, won the award for Next Level Performance, as well as the Best Video Woodie for his song “Sober.” Porter Robinson won the Woodie of the Year, while the trio Years & Years won the Artist to Watch Woodie. Crooner Vance Joy won the Cover Woodie for his rendition of Taylor Swift’s “Riptide.” Rapper Hoodie Allen won the Co-Sign Woodie for his collaboration with Ed Sheeran on the song “All About It,” while Jack and Jack won the Social Climber Woodie Award.

Check out festival performances via stream here, and watch the entire awards show via stream here.

About the Author

Jackie Cular is the East Coast Field Editor for All Access Music Group, Inc., reporting reviews and interviews from festivals and concerts in the eastern part of the US. Jackie is Editor-in-Chief of In the Key of Change (www.inthekeyofchange.com), which merges music with the social causes and charities that bands support. The site was created by this high school teacher in hopes of showing teens that having a social conscience is important, easy, and cool. The site features interviews with bands ranging from hard rock to indie to pop to hiphop to rap--regional, national, and international acts--by asking friendly, honest, and positive questions (they don't do negative press). They report on what bands are doing on stage as well as what they are doing off stage to help their communities. The site also has an online store filled with autographed donated band merchandise; the proceeds from the site are donated to the charity Music Drives Us--which donates instruments and music therapies throughout the Boston area. Jackie will travel up and down the eastern seaboard as well as the midwest to feature bands in many summer festivals. In 2015 she will cover many concerts and festivals, such as: Bonnaroo, Firefly, Warped Tour, Forecastle, Lollapalooza, and much more. For More Info visit us at: http://www.inthekeyofchange.com