In the trend-driven Las Vegas nightlife industry, Victor Drai’s team often seems to be a step ahead of the pack—from launching the city’s most successful after-hours party to incorporating groundbreaking, high-tech design into Drai’s . So when Drai’s managing partner Ryan Michael Craig told JackColton.com last year that the club was starting a live concert series, moving away from an overreliance on EDM DJs, we wondered if the rest of the industry would follow suit. Craig predicted that live music and diversity in genres would be the two biggest movements in Vegas nightlife for 2015. Drai’s Live has since featured performances from The Weeknd, Iggy Azalea and Chris Brown. We checked in with Craig recently about the concert series and his company’s latest venture, building a lounge and dayclub in not-exactly-warm-and-toasty Canada.
