It feels as if there have been rumors of Rock in Rio festival coming to Las Vegas for a couple of years. It looks like those rumors may finally be true. Yesterday the Rock in Rio festival was announced to make its Vegas debut in May of 2015.
More interesting is that this isn’t an idea for a one-off festival. Rock in Rio seems to be the anchor for building the City of Rock – a permanent city and tribute to rock music with 5 concert stages and multiple attractions including a ferris wheel and zipline. City of Rock will be built next to Circus Circus and across the street from SLS Las Vegas.
The concept sounds really cool but unrealistic and it certainly won’t look like their promo video below. Las Vegas can barely support its existing concert venues adding 5 more stages to fill won’t be easy. Additionally MGM Resorts is building an arena that seats another 20,000 people behind Monte Carlo and New York New York.
I love the concept of City of Rock but don’t see it quite coming out the way they envision. Vegas Chatter has more details on City of Rock if you’re curious about specifics and more details.
Iron Maiden – Rock in Rio (Buy DVD)
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To be more accurate, it’ll be located next to the Hilton Grand Vacations on the Las Vegas Strip! It is not next to Circus Circus… You till have Sky Tower and then HGV in between!
Alvaro, you are correct! It’s funny how MGM conveniently skipped over that in their press release and shame on me for not thinking about that. I was too excited for Iron Maiden. 🙂