Tip: A three-concert pass (general admission) is just $99 through December 11. Rock out to the Shins (Thursday), Michael Franti & Spearhead (Friday), and Wilco with hometown opener Nathaniel Rateliff (Saturday).
Snow Daze (December 10–16): The annual winter kick-off week gets amped up this year with some major stage presence. Of course, the anniversary isn’t passing without celebration-and besides the debut of the new heated gondola, Vail is delivering a packed lineup for this month and beyond.
Rateliff has garnered attention with Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, the soulful R&B combo he formed in 2013. What started as a modest ski spot with one gondola, two chairlifts, and just eight runs has since transformed into a vast and prestigious resort with far-flung name recognition. Colorado / Vail / Entertainment Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats and Dierks Bentley Headline Vail Snow Days Westword / 2 months ago. Nathaniel David Rateliff (born October 7, 1978) is an American singer and songwriter based in Denver, whose influences are described as folk, Americana and vintage rhythm & blues. It seemed like an appropriate time to look back: The mountain is celebrating 50 years this season. In our December issue, I got the scoop on the origins of some of Vail‘s 193 trail names. “But I’ve heard that about every record I’ve put out and it’s never happened.The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. “My friends are all like, ‘Oh, this is going to be big,’” he said.
The runaway success of the last few years has surprised Rateliff as much as anoone else. On their triumphant self-titled debut and on last year’s eight-song EP “A Little Something More from Nathaniel Rateliff & the Nigh Sweats,” the band showcases the an exuberant, soul-infused folk that takes cues from Sam Cooke and Otis Redding but throttles them with a hard-rock attitude. “I’m just trying to be healthy and not wake up hungover everyday,” Rateliff said. this summer – and keeping up a rigorous touring schedule, Rateliff has some new challenges on his hands. Now that he’s achieved rock stardom – headlining in Aspen and at marquee summer music festivals around the U.S. “It opened everything up for me, and I said, ‘I can do this,’” he said. Out of that last-ditch songwriting effort came the formation of The Night Sweats and the self-titled album.
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“So to push through, I just wrote one song, and then another, and kept going, and wanted to see where everything would go in that style.” Vail Snow Days, a free winter season kick-off, will feature four days of live music, pub crawls and other events Thursday through Sunday, Dec. “I’d been working hard for a long time and I didn’t know if I was going to keep playing music or get a job or what,” he said. But then he started writing songs in a retro-soul style, and found himself creatively revived. He thought about focusing on the voiceover and gardening work that’s helped pay his bills over the years. When his the next record, 2013’s “Falling Faster Than You Can Run,” failed to gain commercial traction, Ratefliff doubted whether he had a future in music. In 2012, before Rateliff opened for Wilco at a show in Vail, he told the Vail Daily that he was eager to make the jump from opening act to headliner. But breakout success eluded him for years. When bands like Mumford & Sons and Bon Iver came to Colorado, they’d often tap Rateliff to open. “Every other time I’ve been to Belly Up there’s been nobody there,” Rateliff said before his first sold-out show at the Aspen music club in 2015. His reception during early stops in Aspen looked nothing like Saturday’s expected crowd of more than 10,000 fans or the jam-packed Belly Up. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats are: Rateliff (vocals, guitar), Joseph Pope III (bass), Patrick Meese (drums), Luke Mossman (guitar), Shusterman (keys), Andreas Wild (saxophone), Scott Frock. The Denver-based singer and his soul revival band The Night Sweats appeared to be an overnight sensation two years ago when they did an epic rendition of “S.O.B.” on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” saw their self-titled debut record make them one of the breakthrough bands of 2015 and topped the charts.īut it was a long time coming for Rateliff, 38, who will play sold-out concerts at Belly Up Aspen and the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Experience this weekend. Keith Urban performs at 7:30 p.m.Ĭolorado music fans knew Nathaniel Rateliff before it was cool to know Nathaniel Rateliff. Where: Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Experience, Snowmass Town Park Who: Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
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