Vail Snow Days
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats and Shakey Graves
Celebrate the season with Vail Snow Days, returning December 13-16, 2018. This 4-day festival brings free concerts at Ford Park, in-town and on-mountain early season specials, après and after dark parties, lively expo village and more.
FREE CONCERTS AT FORD PARK
NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS
and WILDERMISS
Friday, December 14 | 6pm
SHAKEY GRAVES
and THE DEVON ALLMAN PROJECT with special guest DUANE BETTS
Saturday, December 15 | 6pm
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13:
ALL DAY: Savor Vail: Shop, Sip, Save
Enjoy local early season offers during the 4-day festival
12 - 2pm: Snow Days LIVE!
Live music at Mid-Vail on Vail Mountain
4pm: Snow Days LIVE!
Live après music in Vail Village and Lionshead
5-7pm: Pray for Snow Kick off Party and Bonfire
Celebrate winter at Golden Peak
7-9pm: Pray for Snow Pub Crawl
Lively pub crawl around Vail Village
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14:
ALL DAY: Savor Vail: Shop, Sip, Save
Enjoy local early season offers during the 4-day festival
9am-4pm: Festival Village
Demos, Expos, product sampling, base of Gondola One
4pm: Snow Days LIVE!
Live music in Vail Village and Lionshead
6pm: FREE CONCERT
Presented by Bud Light
Headliner: Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
Opener: Wildermiss
Ford Park Concert Venue | Doors open 6pm | Music starts 6:30pm
10pm: Snow Days LIVE! Live music in Vail Village and Lionshead
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15:
ALL DAY: Savor Vail: Shop, Sip, Save
Enjoy local early season offers during the 4-day festival
9am - 4pm: Festival Village
Demos, Expos, product sampling, base of Gondola One
4pm: Snow Days LIVE!
Live music in Vail Village and Lionshead
6pm: FREE CONCERT
Presented by Bud Light
Headliner: Shakey Graves Opener: The Devon Allman Project with special guest Duane Betts
Ford Park Concert Venue | Doors open 6pm | Music starts 6:30pm
10pm: Snow Days LIVE!
Live music in Vail Village and Lionshead
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16:
ALL DAY: Savor Vail: Shop, Sip, Save
Enjoy local early season offers during the 4-day festival
9am - 4pm: Festival Village
Demos, Expos, product sampling, base of Gondola One
10am - 12pm: Bluegrass & Bloodies
Tavern on the Square, Arrabelle
12-2pm: Snow Days LIVE!
Live music at Mid-Vail on Vail Mountain
4pm: Snow Days LIVE!
Live music in Vail Village and Lionshead
20% off Lodging
20% off lodging rates with an optional purchase of special rate Private Reserve VIP tickets for Friday and Saturday concerts.
Participating lodging properties
- Arrabelle
- Austria Haus
- Destination Resorts
- Hotel Talisa
- Lodge at Vail
- Sonnenalp
- Vail International
- Vail Spa
- Wren
Town of Vail lodging partners interested in participating in the Vail Snow Days lodging offer are encouraged to contact Vail Mountain Central Reservations at reservations@vailresorts.com
Wildermiss
Beloved by fans and critics in its hometown, Denver-based Wildermiss closed out 2017 as one of the most exciting acts to emerge from the Mile High City. The promising quartet built up a strong, impassioned grassroots following that helped propel it to a pair of back-to-back wins in KTCL’s benchmark promotions, the annual Big Gig this past summer and Hometown for the Holidays- not to mention multiple sold-out headlining shows of their own. The outfit quickly won fans over with a smart brand of guitar-driven pop, which has plenty in common with acts like Local Natives, Echosmith, and Florence and the Machine. Cleary, the act found its way
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
Growing up in Hermann, Missouri, Nathaniel Rateliff started his music career playing in his family’s band at church. Music became an obsession for him and his friends. In 1998 Night Sweat bassist, Joseph Pope III and Rateliff moved to Denver where they worked nightshifts at a bottle factory and a trucking company while testing out their songs at open-mic nights. Rateliff released an album on Rounder Records with a backing band called The Wheel, but despite the critical success of that and subsequent albums, he was still trying to find the right sound, the right outlet for what he needed to say.
Those demos eventually developed into the band’s 2015 self-titled debut, which became a massive hit and pushed them out on the road for two long years. In May 2017, they brought that same boundless energy to their follow-up. The result is the aptly titled Tearing at the Seams, a vivacious and inventive full-band record, with significant contributions from all eight members of The Night Sweats. These songs are grounded in old-school soul and R&B, but are far too urgent for the retro or revivalist tag. There are familiar elements of soul and garage rock, but also jazz, folk, and even country.
Shakey Graves
Back in December 2017, Shakey Graves proclaimed on his Twitter page, “Next album. New sound. Sell your suspenders.” The tweet was tongue-in-cheek, but Alejandro Rose-Garcia, the Austin native who’s been plying his trade as Shakey Graves since 2007, was making a dead-serious point about his latest album, Can’t Wake Up. This ambitious, audacious work heralds an artistic metamorphosis for the 30-year-old veteran, whose risk-taking in painting outside the lines has been rewarded tenfold. “This record is the most I’ve ever intentionally worked on a project, musically speaking, in terms of the scope of it and how much thought went into it,” he says. “It’s a dense album; there’s a lot of information going on”.
FAQ's
Other events will take place throughout the village and on the mountain. See schedule for details.
Town of Vail and Eagle County offer extensive public transit systems. Please enjoy Vail Snow Days responsibly and make your transportation plans ahead of time.
Please note that event management retains the right to make the final decision on prohibited items. Furthermore, specific concert or event security policies may create additions to the list above. All guests entering the venues are subject to search by metal detecting wands and/or pat downs.
Additionally, all small bags and purses are subject to search at venue entrances. Attendees will see an increased security and police presence both inside and outside the concert venues.