Welcome to Rockville
Welcome To Rockville is a weekend rock festival held in the spring that features modern & classic rock and metal bands. The festival was held annually at Metropolitan Park in Jacksonville, FL. For 2020 show, the venue changed to Daytona Beach, FL. It was founded and is produced by Danny Wimmer through his festival production company, Danny Wimmer Presents, which produces rock festivals in the United States such as Aftershock, Epicenter and Louder Than Life.
History
The first Welcome To Rockville was held on Mother's Day, May 8, 2011, at the Metropolitan Park. The festival was a one day event, and ran all day Sunday, beginning around 11:00 am and ending after 10:00 pm due to city noise ordinances. A second festival the following year was planned for 2012. The second festival was another one day event that was held on Sunday April 29, 2012. This show saw the return of Jacksonville natives Shinedown to headline the festival along with Korn. The Welcome to Rockville festival was expanded from a one day event to a two-day event in 2013, and three Jacksonville native bands headlined: Limp Bizkit, Shinedown, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. The 2013 festival marked the start of a minor controversy about the enforcement of the city noise ordinances with respect to the festival. The lineup for the 2013 festival was announced on Friday, January 25, 2013.Monster Energy has been a major partner in the festival since Welcome to Rockville's inception in 2011, and the main stages bear the Monster Energy name such as "Monster Energy Metropolitan Stage". The general layout of the festival is that 3 or 4 stages are spread across the venue, and entertainment & food tents are placed between the stages. Regular sponsors are f.y.e., Jägermeister, Jack Daniel's, and Zippo.
The festival was expanded to 3 days in 2018.
In March 2020 it was announced that the festival would be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic but would return in 2021.
Estimated Yearly Attendance
- 2013 – 25,000+
- 2014 – 40,000 sold-out event
- 2015 – 50,000 sold-out event
- 2016 – 50,000 sold-out event
- 2017 – 75,000
Lineup
2011
Main Stage:- Godsmack
- Stone Sour
- Seether
- Theory of a Dead Man
- Chevelle
- Puddle of Mudd
- Skillet
- Halestorm
- Son of a Bad Man
Jägermeister Stage:
- Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
- Revis
- Fit for Rivals
- Six Shot Revival
- Mindslip
- Viktr
- Broken Trust
- Manna Zen
- Efen
- In Whispers
2012
- Korn
- Evanesence
- Halestorm
- Trivium
- Adelitas Way
- Otherwise
- Soulswitch
- Shinedown
- Five Finger Death Punch
- P.O.D.
- Lacuna Coil
- Art of Dying
- Eye Empire
2013
- Alice in Chains
- Stone Sour
- Papa Roach
- Halestorm
- All That Remains
- Pop Evil
Emerging Artist Stage:
- Escape the Fate
- Otherwise
- Whitechapel
- Gemini Syndrome
- Hell or High Water
- Rockville Rumble Winner
- Rockville Rumble Winner
- Edens Fill
- Rockville Rumble Winner
- Rockville Rumble Winner
- Stars in Stereo
- MonstrO
- Rockville Rumble Winner
- Lynyrd Skynyrd
- 3 Doors Down
- Skillet
- Filter
- Saving Abel
- Red
Emerging Artist Stage:
Jaxlive Stage:
- Rockville Rumble Winner
- Rockville Rumble Winner
- Rockville Rumble Winner
- Rockville Rumble Winner
- The Apprehended
- ception
2014
- Avenged Sevenfold
- A Day to Remember
- Chevelle
- Hellyeah
- Adelitas Way
- Rev Theory
- Digital Summer
- The Cult
- Volbeat
- Alter Bridge
- Chiodos
- Middle Class Rut
- Gemini Syndrome
Ernie Ball Stage:
Monster Energy West Stage:
- Korn
- Five Finger Death Punch
- Seether
- Sick Puppies
- Within Reason
Jägermeister stage:
- Motionless in White
- Emmure
- Lacuna Coil
- Kyng
- Ghost of War
- Trivium
- Butcher Babies
- Nothing More
- Twelve Foot Ninja
2015
- Hollywood Undead
- Nonpoint
- Avatar
- 36 Crazyfists
- World Gone
- Scare Don't Fear
- Korn
- Slayer
- Halestorm
- Of Mice & Men
- Hollywood Undead
- Stars in Stereo
ReverbNation Stage:
Jägermeister Stage:
Monster Energy Main Stage:
- Slipknot
- Papa Roach
- The Pretty Reckless
- In This Moment
- We Are Harlot
- Godsmack
- Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators
- Breaking Benjamin
- Motionless in White
- Young Guns
- '68
- All That Remains
- Hatebreed
- Butcher Babies
- Starset
- ReverbNation Band
- Shattered Sun
Monster Energy Righty Stage:
- Shinedown
- Bring Me the Horizon
- Pennywise
- Bullet for My Valentine
- Trivium
- Wilson
- Disturbed
- Hellyeah
- Asking Alexandria
- Red Sun Rising
- Monster Truck
- 3 Doors Down
- Collective Soul
- Pop Evil
- Candlebox
- Filter
- Lacey Sturm
- Escape the Fate
- Crown the Empire
- Enter Shikari
- Miss May I
- Cane Hill
- Big Jesus
- Rob Zombie
- A Day to Remember
- Cypress Hill
- P.O.D.
- Sick Puppies
- From Ashes to New
Metropolitan Stage:
- Five Finger Death Punch
- Lamb of God
- Ghost
- We Came as Romans
- Memphis May Fire
- Avatar
- Anthrax
- Clutch
- Parkway Drive
- Issues
- Beartooth
2017
- Soundgarden
- The Offspring
- Coheed and Cambria
- Eagles of Death Metal
- All That Remains
- I Prevail
- Goodbye June
- A Perfect Circle
- Mastodon
- The Pretty Reckless
- Highly Suspect
- Starset
- Dinosaur Pile-Up
- Badflower
- Pierce the Veil
- In Flames
- Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes
- Volumes
- Royal Republic
- As Lions
- The Charm The Fury
- Def Leppard
- Papa Roach
- Three Days Grace
- Of Mice & Men
- The Dillinger Escape Plan
- Nothing More
- Rival Sons
- Chevelle
- Seether
- Alter Bridge
- In This Moment
- Motionless in White
- Beartooth
- Kyng
Monster Energy Stage:
Metropolitan Stage:
- Trivium
- Parkway Drive
- Halestorm
- Godsmack
- Them Evils
- Bad Wolves
- Toothgrinder
- Power Trip
- Atreyu
- Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown
- Avatar
- Sevendust
- Black Veil Brides
- Hollywood Undead
- Breaking Benjamin
- Avenged Sevenfold
- Joyous Wolf
- Red Sun Rising
- Pop Evil
- Asking Alexandria
- Killswitch Engage
- Stone Temple Pilots
- Stone Sour
- Yashira
- The Wild!
- He Is Legend
- Palaye Royale
- Stick to Your Guns
- Butcher Babies
- Andrew W.K.
- The Bronx
- Red Fang
- Greta Van Fleet
- Bullet for My Valentine
- Billy Idol
- Foo Fighters
River Stage:
- Spirit Animal
- The Fever 333
- Turnstile
- Wolf Alice
- Baroness
2019
- Dirty Honey
- Hands Like Houses
- Hyro the Hero
- Tom Morello
- Flogging Molly
- Chevelle
- Korn
- Amigo the Devil
- Light the Torch
- Beartooth
- Killswitch Engage
- The Crystal Method
- Evanescence
- Cleopatrick
- Demob Happy
- Wilson
- Black Pistol Fire
- Mark Lanegan Band
- Circa Survive
- Dead Girls Academy
- The Damned Things
- Black Label Society
- In This Moment
- Shinedown
- Rob Zombie
- Crobot
- Badflower
- Tremonti
- Skillet
- The Cult
- Judas Priest
- Boston Manor
- Movements
- Wage War
- Zeal and Ardor
- Yelawolf
- Hyde
- The Glorious Sons
- Yungblud
- Fever 333
- The Interrupters
- Bring Me the Horizon
- Tool
- The Dirty Nil
- Dorothy
- Reignwolf
- The Struts
- Papa Roach
- Incubus
- SHVPES
- While She Sleeps
- grandson
- Architects
- Meshuggah