Rock For Ronnie 2025 Report w/ Wendy Dio, Doug Aldrich, Simon Wright, Doug Pinnick, Ricky Warwick & More

For The Metal Voice former Anthrax singer Neil Turbin reported at this years Rock for Ronnie 2025.

Artists were asked about their thoughts on the late Ronnie James Dio.

Artists Remembering Ronnie Report include: Wendy Dio, Doug Aldrich (Dead Daisies, Dio, Whitesnake), Simon Wright (AC/DC Dio), Doug Pinnick (Kings X), Ricky Warwick (Thin Lizzy), Mike Mangan (The Cult), Richard D’Argenzio and Kathy D’Argenzio Rhoads, Bjorn Englen ( Yngwie Malmsteen), Scott Warren (Dio) and Marten Andersson (Lita Ford)

This year’s ROCK FOR RONNIE Concert in the Park fund-raiser, benefiting the Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund (www.diocancerfund.org), was on Sunday afternoon, May 18, 2025, at the outdoor space adjacent to the Autry Museum of the West in Griffith Park.

ROCK FOR RONNIE, an afternoon of live rock music, silent and live auctions, food trucks and fun geared to the entire family, celebrates the memory of the late singer who succumbed to gastric cancer in 2010.

100% of the net proceeds from the ROCK FOR RONNIE will go to the Dio Cancer Fund, which is now in its 14th year of raising awareness and much-needed funding for cancer prevention, education and research for a cure. The organization also hosts the annual Bowl for Ronnie Celebrity Bowling Party in November.