Welcome to Rockville app is here: What you need to know about Daytona event

Heading to the big, make that bigger-than-ever, Welcome to Rockville music festival in Daytona Beach?

You can find everything you need to know about the band lineup, performance schedule, updates to the performance schedule, merchandise, parking and  — dare we mention it?  — procedures and policies for inclement weather on the app that’s available in the Apple store or on Google Play.

Heading to Welcome to Rockville in Daytona Beach? You can find everything you need to know at the festival's official mobile app.
Heading to Welcome to Rockville in Daytona Beach? You can find everything you need to know at the festival's official mobile app.

There's a (Rockville) app for that

Those planning a trip to the four-day event May 9-12 at Daytona International Speedway can create personalized festival schedule, complete with alerts, and access myriad other details about the festival on the official mobile app, also available for download at: https://welcometorockville.com/mobileapp/

What’s offered on the Welcome to Rockville app?

On its home page, the app offers quick access to essential links for featured bands Foo Fighters, Slipknot, Mötley Crüe, Jelly Roll, Limp Bizkit, Disturbed, Queens of the Stone Age and Greta Van Fleet. You can connect with one touch to the Facebook, Instagram, X, Spotify accounts and official band websites.

More: Welcome to Rockville 2024 day-by-day, stage-by-stage schedule: Who's playing when, where?

Fans also can access several configurations of the Rockville 2024 lineup that tops 150 bands on five stages at this year’s event on the mammoth Speedway infield. There’s an alphabetical listing, as well as a list of band’s according to the daily schedule for the four-day event.

Those headed to the festival also can create their own itinerary by visiting the schedule section, tapping an icon to next to a particular set time to add it to a personalized schedule.

If you’re looking for a map to find merchandise vendors, food or stages on the 150-acre Speedway infield, the app also has that. A second map also details the camping and parking areas at the event.

Can you buy passes for the event on the Rockville app?

Yes.

There are links to buy everything from single-day general admission tickets to high-end 4-day Daytona Owner’s Club and Weekend VIP  packages. Those with tickets also can use the app to register the ID on festival wristbands.

In case you’re wondering, single-day GA tickets are $119.99, plus fees, for May 9,10 and 12; or $139.99, plus fees, for May 11. Four-day weekend general admission passes are $319.99, plus fees.

For the VIP treatment, Daytona Owner’s Club packages, which promise the “ultimate Rockstar experience,” go for $1,599.99, plus fees. VIP Weekend passes are already sold-out at $649.99,plus fees.

For more information, you also can check out the festival website, welcometorockville.com

How does this year’s Rockville compare with past editions of the event?

By the numbers, it will be the biggest Rockville ever.

With at least 150 bands on the bill, the 2024 incarnation of the mammoth Welcome to Rockville music festival in May at Daytona International Speedway will be exponentially larger than any previous editions over more than a dozen years starting in 2011 in Jacksonville.

All those bands, a total that eclipses the 95 acts booked for the Rockville 2023 festival, will be presented on five stages, one more than Rockville has offered in its previous three years in the Speedway’s massive infield.

This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Welcome to Rockville 2024 unveils app for Daytona event