Rock in Rio festival returns after pandemic pause
Rock in Rio, the world’s largest music festival, opens the doors to a new edition in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, which will feature approximately 250 concerts over 7 days for 700,000 spectators who gathered to enjoy the band. Tickets were sold for Like Guns’n’Rose and Iron Maiden.
After the pause caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced organisers to postpone planned editions in Lisbon in 2020 and Rio de Janeiro in 2021, the festival returned to the Brazilian city where it originated in 1985. happened. It will be the ninth edition in Brazil and the twenty-first edition worldwide.
It kicked off with heavy metal bands, Iron Maiden, Dream Theatre and Sepultura.
Other big names appearing will be Justin Bieber, Dua Lipa and Coldplay.
Over two weekends, global artists such as Post Malone, Demi Lovato, Camila Cabello, Green Day, Avril Lavigne and Megan Thee Stallion will perform on the two main stages.
In addition to the approximately 670 performers that will offer 507 hours of concerts, attendees, 100,000 each of the seven nights, an entire amusement park with multiple attractions and two roller coasters, a giant Chicago wheel, a vertical drop will be able to enjoy. Lifts, a “Discovery” and a zip line pass right in front of the main stage.
Rock in Rio is held every two years and this one is the 22nd such event and the ninth time it has been in Brazil.
