page_title: Rock in Rio USA
section_title: Venue
hierarchical_section_title: Rock in Rio USA / Venue
caption_attribution_description: English: Circus Circus, Las Vegas Strip, USA.
context_page_description: Rock in Rio USA was a music festival held in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2015. A spin-off of Rio de Janeiro's Rock in Rio festival, it was held on two consecutive weekends in May 2015 at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds on the Las Vegas Strip. It shared a similar structure and format to its Brazilian counterpart, hosting at least 120 acts for its first and only edition, while its site was developed in cooperation with organizers. The event was a partnership with SFX Entertainment, the festival's Brazilian stakeholder IMX, MGM Resorts International, Yucaipa Companies, and Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group.
  Per the terms of the organizers' contract with the venue, the festival was to be held biennially from 2015 through at least 2019. The first edition was held across two weekends of two days each, and was to expand into a three-day, two-weekend format during the subsequent editions. However, after attendance and revenue from the 2015 edition were below expectations, plans for future editions of the event were quietly shelved.
context_section_description: Rock in Rio USA was held at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds, a 33-acre (13 ha), open-air venue with a capacity of 80,000, located on Sahara Avenue near the MGM-owned Circus Circus Las Vegas hotel and casino. It is owned by the MGM/Yucaipa/Cirque consortium, who collectively spent $20 million on its development. Rock in Rio organizers collaborated with MGM and Yucaipa on the design of the venue to ensure a "very premium festival experience", stating that it would have an amusement park-inspired layout with five stages (including dedicated stages for indie and electronic music acts), rides (such as a roulette-themed ferris wheel and a zipline), shopping, and themed food courts.
caption: Circus Circus Las Vegas, a casino near the site of the Las Vegas Festival Grounds
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