Welcome To Rockville’s Historic 10th Edition Welcomed 161,000 People Over 4 Full Days, November 11-14 At Daytona International Speedway Officially Making It America’s Largest Rock Festival Plus At-Home Audience Of Over 1.2 Million On DWPresents Twitch Channel Tuned In During Danny Wimmer Presents’ First-Ever Festival Livestream 2022 Welcome To Rockville Headliners Announced For May 19-22: GUNS N’ ROSES, FOO FIGHTERS, KISS and KORN
Weekend Passes On Sale Now For $10 Down For Limited Time At www.WelcomeToRockville.com
Event Marks Incredible End To DWP’s Record-Breaking 2021 Festival Season That Brought Together
More Than 500,000 Fans For The Return Of Live Music
Weekend Offered Final Double Performance From Metallica
As Part Of A Unique Partnership With DWP Plus Memorable Performances From Slipknot, Disturbed, Lynyrd Skynyrd & Many More
Welcome To Rockville’s milestone 10th edition brought in the festival’s biggest crowd yet, with 161,000 people that came to Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida for the four-day music event, held November 11-14. The record attendance officially makes Welcome To Rockville America’s biggest rock festival. In addition, a worldwide at-home audience of 1.2 million unique viewers enjoyed the livestream with select festival performances, exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes content on the DWPresents On Twitch channel. Welcome To Rockville2021 marks the first-time producers Danny Wimmer Presents have livestreamed one of their festivals. Fans in attendance during the Welcome To Rockville weekend – and those watching at home – were also the first to find out Rockville’s 2022 headliners, which have been announced as KISS (Thursday, May 19), KORN (Friday, May 20), Guns N’ Roses (Saturday, May 21) and Foo Fighters (Sunday, May 22). The full festival lineup will be announced in December. “We knew we had to do something massive to follow the biggest Welcome To Rockville in history so we went out and got rock legends Guns N’ Roses, newly inducted Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Foo Fighters, (you wanted the best, we got you the best) KISS and DWP’s most requested band, KORN,” says Danny Wimmer, founder of Danny Wimmer Presents. “We’re looking forward to breaking records at THE WORLD CENTER OF ROCK with you, see you in 2022!” Weekend passes, single day and camping are on sale now for just $10 down for a limited time at www.WelcomeToRockville.com.
Not only was Welcome To Rockville an incredible finale for Danny Wimmer Presents 2021 festival season – welcoming a grand total of more than 500,000 fans across four events – but Florida’s Biggest Rock Experience was also the final chance to catch two nights and two unique sets from Metallica as part of a unique partnership between the band and DWP for this year only. In addition to playing a massive set of hits on Friday night, Metallica commemorated the 30th anniversary of their seminal Black Album on Sunday night by playing it in full, from back to front. To mark the conclusion of the band’s special partnership with Danny Wimmer Presents, DWP founder Danny Wimmer presented Metallica with a $25,000 check for the band’s All Within My Hands foundation. Welcome To Rockville offered other memorable moments, including Slipknot’s final show date of 2021 where they played their brand-new song “The Chapeltown Rag” for the first time outside of Knotfest as well as a rousing headlining set from Disturbed that offered some of the band’s biggest hits. Lynyrd Skynyrd also gave a memorable final North Florida hometown performance after more than 50 years together while Gwar celebrated 30 years of their hit record Scumdogs of the Universe. As well, Mastodon played their first show since releasing the Billboard-topping new album Hushed and Grim while Welcome To Rockville host and Metal Ambassador Jose Mangin took the stage with Ice Nine Kills where he grimly re-enacted a lyric in the song “Hip To Be Scared.” The weekend also furthered the successful partnership between DWP and Twitch that allowed fans to tune into “That Space Zebra Show” throughout Welcome To Rockville for exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes content.
The 1.2 million unique viewers that tuned in for over 10.9 million minutes throughout the festival were treated to performances by Staind, Cypress Hill, Disturbed, Rob Zombie and dozens more. Daytona Beach News Journal said, “The massive, multi-day Welcome to Rockville music festival is already striking a loud, positive chord as a consensus tourism winner.” And Pollstar called Danny Wimmer Present’s 2021 year a “strong comeback” after the pandemic, adding that DWP “is on the brink of successfully pulling off four major festivals in different markets, seeing some of its biggest crowds and giving many artists and fans their biggest shows of 2021.” While Forbes added of DWP’s partnership with Twitch, which took on a large presence at Welcome To Rockville, “DWP & Twitch are paving the future for rock and metal music.”
Welcome To Rockville partners included: Authentic Mosh Apparel, Blackcraft, Bud Light, Bud Light Seltzer, Capital Vacations, Curaleaf, Demons Behind Me, ESP Guitars, Fxck Cancer, Go RVing, Original Gummi FunMix, Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey, Jose Cuervo, The Kraken Black Spiced Rum, Mortus Viventi, Parlor, Revolver & Inked Magazine, Sator, Space Zebra, Take Me Home, The Music Experience, Three Olives Vodka, TickPick and TWLOHA.
Welcome To Rockville is produced by Danny Wimmer Presents, one of the largest independent producers of destination music festivals in America. After welcoming sold-out crowds of 90,000-plus for the past three events, the move to Daytona International Speedway will allow Welcome ToRockville to continue to grow and provide more enhanced audience experiences. A recent $400 million renovation of the Speedway and additional $200 million invested in the surrounding area in recent years has transformed the destination into a world-class facility, including numerous hotels within walking distance, many dining options and expanded space for camping, allowing Rockville attendees a convenient and well-rounded experience.
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About Danny Wimmer Presents: Since 1995, music industry veteran Danny Wimmer has been producing concerts and festivals, both large and small. In 2011, he formed Danny Wimmer Presents, which now produces several of the largest rock and alternative festivals in the U.S. By combining A-list talent with local cuisine and culture, DWP has become recognized within the industry for delivering the highest-quality entertainment experiences to fans, artists, sponsors, partners and host cities. DWP creates memorable and all-encompassing festival experiences, leaving both consumers and partners with lasting and meaningful impressions. DWP will continue to add new music festivals to its already stellar portfolio, which currently includes Aftershock, Bourbon & Beyond, Epicenter, Hometown Rising, Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival, Louder Than Life, Sonic Temple Art + Music Festival, and Welcome To Rockville. Previous DWP festivals include Rock On The Range, Carolina Rebellion, Northern Invasion and more. In 2020, DWP launched the popular digital series Offstage with DWP and Beyond the Barrel, and ventured into the digital content curation space, promoting pay-per-view live streams. www.DannyWimmerPresents.com
About Daytona International Speedway: Daytona International Speedway is the home of The Great American Race – the DAYTONA 500. Though the season-opening NASCAR Cup Series event garners most of the attention – as well as the largest audience in motorsports – the approximately 500-acre motorsports complex boasts the most diverse schedule of racing on the globe, thus earning it the title of World Center of Racing. In addition to eight major weekends of racing activity, rarely a week goes by that the Speedway grounds are not used for events that include civic and social gatherings, car shows, photo shoots, production vehicle testing and police motorcycle training.
