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Jeremy Roth turns to Robe for Nathaniel Rateliff’s homecoming holiday concert in Denver

Singer-songwriter Nathaniel Rateliff and his band The Night Sweats played their sold-out annual homecoming holiday concert at the Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado, in December 2023. It was the second time the annual event, which has been running for some years, was staged at this venue, after moving to the larger space in 2022.

The lighting was crafted by Jeremy Roth, who has been Rateliff’s production designer since 2017. He utilized over 100 Robe moving lights - Fortes, Spiiders and MegaPointes plus a RoboSpot system - and programmed and operated lights for this seasonal holiday performance himself, working alongside lighting director Adam Waguespack who often takes the show on the road for him. At Ball Arena, Waguespack took on the role of coordinating the follow spots and RoboSpot system.

Additional video came in for the hometown production in the form of three large upstage screens, with the department overseen by Mike Grant (Black Keys). The production design saw both lighting and video technologies share the stage, based on a scaled-up version of their current “The Future” tour which hit the road in April 2023, and an augmented package used for another set of sold-out local shows at Red Rocks last summer.

The video screens, which were framed by single LED blinders, were one of Roth’s creative starting points for the Ball Arena show, with the overhead lighting rig like the touring version populated across six trusses. Two mid stage trusses were flown one above the other, arranged in gentle U-shapes, with a straight front truss over the stage apron at the front and a reverse U-shaped advanced truss.

The back truss was rigged with twelve Fortes to project textures on the red velour drape behind the video wall, with another thirteen Fortes on the front truss, working with four more on the advance truss. These last four Fortes were all running on a 4-way RoboSpot system. On this tour, the Fortes are replacing the BMFL Spots used on the previous tours’ RoboSpots systems. Nathaniel Rateliff’s long-term lighting, video and audio vendor Brown Note Productions had invested in Fortes ahead of the tour in April 2023, enabling them to transition from the BMFLs used in previous years.

Initially, LEDBeam 350s were on the rig, but these were eventually swapped out for the 33 Spiiders boosting the output and the wash coverage. Robe’s effects luminaire MegaPointe has been omnipresent on Rateliff’s lighting schemes ever since Roth has been onboard with the singer in 2017, initially as part of the floor lighting package. They have featured in every design since. At Ball Arena, eleven MegaPointes were positioned on the deck, and ten on the advanced truss.

Roth, Waguespack, and Grant engaged in three days of pre-vizing at Brown Note’s Studio in Denver ahead of the Ball Arena show, then three days of technical rehearsal at Denver Coliseum before loading in on the morning of the actual gig. Lighting was programmed on a GrandMA3 console running in mode 2.

(Photos: Jeremy Roth/Tobin Voggesser/Nocoast LLC)

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