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Concerts
Colt Ford
Colt Ford embodies the spirit of High Seas Rally and its awesome crew members. He lives life to the fullest, he combines the right amount of grit with wit, and he’s prolific and powerful. Colt is a trailblazer who breaks every rule along the way.
Hailing from Georgia, the singer, songwriter, performer and co-founder of Average Joes Entertainment is forging ahead as country’s preeminent independent maverick. His music blends Southern rock, modern country and rap. In fact, Ford is the first and only artist to have a #1 album on both the Billboard Top Country Album and Top Rap Album lists.
Colt's second album, Chicken & Biscuits, reached the Top 10 on Billboard’s Top County Albums, Independent Albums and Top Rap Albums. He notched five consecutive Top 10 debuts on the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart with Declaration of Independence reaching #1 in 2012. Two years later, Thanks for Listening ascended to the Top 10, with the album reaching #1 on Billboard Rap & Independent charts. Meanwhile, he lobbed six songs onto the Hot Country Songs Chart with “Back” (featuring Jake Owen) going Top 40. Among many accolades, Ford received a nomination in the category of Vocal Event of the Year at the Academy of Country Music Awards for “Cold Beer” with Jamey Johnson.
Foghat
Foghat’s live show is as intense as ever with the incredible energy and musicianship that one would expect and hope for from a seasoned band with such a long musical history and they are bringing their fans along for the ride. These guys just love to play!
Formed in 1971 when Lonesome Dave Peverett & Roger Earl left the British blues-rock band, Savoy Brown, Foghat has earned eight Gold records, one Platinum record and one Double-Platinum record. And they continue to release new music every few years. They have never stopped touring and recording although there have been several ups and downs and changes over the years. They sadly lost Lonesome Dave Peverett in 2000 and Rod Price in 2005, but Roger Earl kept banging and kicking to keep Foghat’s musical legacy going.
The band has started work on yet another blues/rock studio album to be released in late 2022, so stay tuned! You cannot keep these boys down!
Molly Hatchet
In the early 1970s, a new form of music was emerging in the South. A mixture of blues, country, gospel and the English invasion of rock 'n roll combined to create Southern Rock. Playing music filled with style and emotion, the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and a band from Jacksonville, Florida, called Molly Hatchet rose to the forefront of the Southern Rock wave. Molly Hatchet's name was inspired by the infamous 17th Century axe murderess "Hatchet Molly," who would behead her lovers with the hand tool Lizzie Borden made famous.
Their self-titled debut album was released in 1978 and reached multi-platinum status as the band established their reputation of working hard, playing tough and living fast through intense touring with such bands as Aerosmith, Bob Seger, The Rolling Stones and many more. In 1979, Flirtin' with Disaster was released and history was in the making. The band continued touring on the road with an average of 250 live shows per year. Like the first album, Flirtin' with Disaster also achieved multi-platinum status.
The band celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2003 with the double live album Locked and Loaded, which was recorded in Germany at the International Harley Davidson Festival in front of 80,000 Southern rockers. In 2017, the band performed special concerts in the Persian Gulf for U.S. military personnel stationed in the United Arab Emirates, and then in Okinawa, Japan, to perform for our dedicated troops in the South Pacific.
To this day, Molly Hatchet is still workin' hard, playin' tough, livin' fast, and still "Flirtin' with Disaster!"
Black Smoke Sinners
Black Smoke Sinners were forged through lifelong friendships, a shared brotherhood, and a burning desire to bring the true ‘Rock Show’ experience back to the national rally scene. What this amazing assemblage of seasoned touring musicians brings every single night is a power and ferocity that manifests itself in pure, unbridled joy on stage. With songs torn from the very fabric of rock history, and an unabashed passion to throw the party right then and there, Black Smoke Sinners delivers on all levels. What truly sets the band apart is our connection to the community of bike builders, and riders.
All the members of this musical powerhouse (including High Seas Rally hosts Xavier Muriel and Chris Callen) are riders themselves, proud devotees of wind and road. Black Smoke Sinners proudly claim two acclaimed bike builders and a nationally published magazine, Cycle Source, as testament to that very passion. Our mission from day one has been to celebrate the biker life, the music that embodies that life, and the brotherhood (and sisterhood) of the truly shared experience of a national bike rally. Live to Rock. Live to Ride!
Steel Rod
Formed in the early millennium by founding members Rod, Johnny and Whit, Steel Rod is a Los Angeles-based classic rock and R&B band. They teamed up with the Mondragon brothers, Billy and Eric of DW3 in 2010, to create an explosive powerhouse band.
As Steel Rod recently celebrated its 20th anniversary, the band continues to play the Los Angeles club scene while also performing on cruises. Covering a wide variety of music from classic rock to Motown, this group is without a doubt the ultimate party band!
Brad Heron & Brian Wilk
When Brad Heron was a baby, legend has it that his parents kept him swaddled in biker leather onesies and pushed him around in a custom chrome stroller. It wasn’t long before he started reaching for a Casio keyboard, and he could play Foghat’s “Slow Ride” and Molly Hatchet’s "Flirtin’ with Disaster" before he could even drive. As Brad grew to manhood, the freewheelin’ lifestyle stayed with him. He hit the open road and took any job he could find, learning a lot but ultimately being let go because of his insistence on wearing leather vests and randomly shouting, “I feel the need for speed!” But it was all for the best, because eventually his gift for music led him to working as an entertainer for cruise lines, where he was free to play every song possible.
Brian Wilk began playing piano as early as he could reach the keyboard. When he couldn’t sleep, his parents played “Midnight Rider” in his dark nursery. When he was old enough to drive, he hit the open road like a “Bat Out of Hell.” Pursuing a life in music, he began performing with the ComedySportz improv troupe. But he was “Born to Be Wild” and “Hell Bent for Leather,” so he revved up his music career and kept “Heading Out to the Highway” to share his love of music with new audiences in new places all around the country. There is almost no song Brian doesn’t know (or can make up the words to). On the High Seas Rally, he will continue his quest to bring ‘Freewheel Burning’ rock to dueling pianos.
Kevin Hamel
Kevin Hamel picked up his first guitar at 15 and has spent his musical career transforming his passion for music into a lifelong drive to becoming a truly diverse entertainer, playing in rock cover bands in New England in his college days to high-energy acoustic shows at clubs and bars from Maine to Key West, including: Sloppy Joe’s; Irish Kevin’s; Willie T’s and Sugarloaf Mountain, to name a few.
Focusing on the audience, his wide repertoire of genres and ability to play most of his show through requests, helps to make the connection with the crowd and make them part of the show. Add in some infectious sing-alongs and the music you once sang into a hair brush in front of the mirror (and maybe still do), and you’ve got an experience that will make you put your phone away and sing like a rockstar!
Kevin was a paratrooper in the US Army. He currently lives in Bangor, Maine, with his 2 children, Riley and Kayla.
Retro DJ Travis Bell
Hosts & Special Guests
Xavier Muriel
Xavier Muriel, Cycle Source Magazine’s 2019 Readers Poll Builder of the Year and builder of Easyriders Magazine’s 2019 Bike of the Year, built a custom motorcycle for us, and one lucky member of the High Seas Rally community will win it!
The love for motorcycles courses through Xavier’s bloodline. At 6 years old, Xavier received his first bike from his father — a 1974 Honda “Mr. 50.” At the same time, Xavier was also growing increasingly passionate about music, which turned into a career that took him all over the world. Xavier has played on the same stages as his childhood idols, but he never loosened his grip on his love for motorcycles.
In between tours and recording as a drummer for Buckcherry, Xavier built a motorcycle for himself, just for kicks. His father always told him, “Exhaust all efforts before you pay someone to do it.” That first bike sent Xavier down the road to begin building custom motorcycles professionally and opening his own shop. With help from friends in the industry, Xavier dove into building custom motorcycles with the same love he put into his music.
“To me, these two loves are one in the same,” Xavier says. “It is a creative process that starts with an idea from which you take the raw elements and time and hard work, and then you watch it come to life. That is the beauty from which art is created. I approach my builds in the same manner as my drumming: Less is always more. Clean and simple lines that enhance the overall feel and look of a bike. To me, that makes a motorcycle. After all they are made to be ridden.”
Chris Callen
Chris Callen was born with a passion for motorcycles. Fueled by a desire to live, work and play in the motorcycle industry, Chris launched Cycle Source magazine 23 years ago from the back of his aftermarket parts shop. On a borrowed computer, 24 glorious pages came to life and were freely circulated within a 100-mile radius of his hometown of Pittsburgh, PA. Every 30 days since March 1997, Chris has continued to improve Cycle Source — in page count, paper quality, and content until 2005 when the magazine ceased free distribution and entered the national newsstand.
As print media and consumer habits evolved, Chris steered Cycle Source forward with new technology. From web content to video shorts through companies he started like Rally TV and then Grease & Gears TV, Callen continued to improve the reach of his content while the newsstand world changed. Events, including motorcycle shows, bike games, and mini-bike races, became another big part of Cycle Source’s operations. It was these events that gave birth to the idea of Grease & Gears Garage, where bike builders and parts manufacturers would join Cycle Source on stage at major rally venues and show their craft. Callen added in the component of streaming it live, some of the first content of its kind in the motorcycle world, and the program became a fast success.
In 2017, Callen launched the weekly simulcast ShopTalk that quickly became a live weekly version of the magazine with interviews, tech tips, and motorcycle news. Most recently, he developed the Cyber Show and Rally, the world's first-ever virtual bike show and motorcycle rally.
Roy Riley
For more than 43 years, Roy Riley has entertained crowds from coast to coast as a stand-up comic. We've been hooked on Roy ever since he joined us on the first High Seas Rally in 2003. Roy keeps the fun and frivolity rolling during onboard shows, events and gatherings. When not cruising with HSR, you will find Roy emceeing scores of events, from auctions to weddings and all things in between.
After growing up in upstate New York, Roy moved to Snowshoe Mountain Ski Resort in West Virginia in the early 1980s. For the next 25 years, Roy enjoyed the road less traveled on his stage at The Comedy Cellar with a million laughs and countless memories. After all those years high atop Snowshoe Mountain, hours from the mall and grocery store, Roy and his family relocated from the mountains of West Virginia to the bluegrass pastures of Kentucky to begin their next big adventures.
If you think you’ve seen all of this sea dog’s antics, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!
Paul Yaffe
Paul Yaffe, founder of Paul Yaffe Originals & Paul Yaffe's Bagger Nation, has been carving a name for himself in the motorcycle industry since 1991 by producing some of the most innovative and original custom parts and bikes. Paul's unique style and commitment to creating better parts for Harley-Davidsons ignited the industry and demand for his product was intense.
Paul's designs have garnered every kind of award and accolade imaginable. He's won just about every major custom show award in the world at least once. His motorcycle creations have graced the covers of hundreds of international publications and he's made appearances on over 50 different TV shows.
In 2006, Yaffe purchased a Harley-Davidson Street Glide and, after one amazing trip through Mexico, Paul fell in love. He saw the potential in the bike and thought he could give it a killer chopper attitude while retaining all the great riding characteristics that Baggers are known for. As soon as he got back from the trip, Paul began customizing the bike. When it was finished a whole new world had opened up! Paul Yaffe's Bagger Nation was born.
Paul Yaffe and his crew have been bringing well-built, custom upgrades to the Harley aftermarket for over 30 years now. “It all started with a love of motorcycles and a curiosity and desire to see what could be made of them,” Paul says.
Dave Perewitz
Dave Perewitz is a self-taught fabricator that got his start in 1969. He founded Cycle Fab, as it was known then, in 1971 where he continued to hone his customizing and painting skills.
Dave leveraged the expanding availability of aftermarket products in the early 1980s and began designing and building motorcycles from the ground up. Although he is a master painter of all designs, it was at this time that his signature flames began standing out on most all of the motorcycles that he created. Dave has since become known as the “King of Flames” and this is one of his specialties.
A custom Cycle Fab motorcycle continues to be a status symbol among celebrities. The company has built custom creations for rock stars, NFL greats and NASCAR execs, crew chiefs and drivers.
With the influx of business, celebrity builds and greater notoriety for the company’s principal, the company changed its name to Perewitz Cycle Fabrication. As one of the nation’s original custom builders, Dave was chosen to represent the industry on numerous shows, including Discovery Channel’s now-famous Biker Build-Off, in 2003. The notoriety gained from all of the television exposure catapulted the Perewitz brand name into another category all together.
The Perewitz Cycle Fabrication team travels to nearly 35 shows and events a year where the entire team pitches in to bring “The Look” around the country.
Jody Perewitz
Jody Perewitz is one of the most recognizable women in the motorcycle industry today having paved her own way into history by becoming the first woman to ever jockey an American V-Twin powered motorcycle into the record books at well over 200 MPH. She currently holds 16 Land Speed Records, one of which is a world record.
In 2018, Jody competed in the Motorcycle Cannonball Endurance Race. She rode a 1926 Harley Davidson JD, becoming one of three women to complete all the miles. Jody also competed in the 2019 Motorcycle Chase, completing all the miles from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to Key West.
In 2020, Jody was inducted into the Sturgis Motorcycle Hall of Fame. She is the youngest member to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Jody and her father Dave are the only father/daughter duo in the Hall of Fame. In 2021, she was selected to be the Grand Marshall of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.
When Jody is not on two wheels she continues to grow the brand at Perewitz Cycle Fab, She works side by side with her father, the legendary Dave Perewitz. Jody designs and paints motorcycles, helmets, tumblers and more! She is following in her fathers footsteps with their passion for paintwork. Jody spends a lot of her day in the paint booth putting her creative genes to work.
Adam Sandoval
Charity and adventure — two powerful callings that are the driving force behind Adam Sandoval and High Seas Rally.
Fueled by his regret of not choosing to serve in the military and his passion for motorcycles, Adam created ScootinAmerica to raise money and awareness for our military and their families. With his canine co-pilot named Scooter on his back, Adam set out in 2014 with a mission to visit every Harley-Davidson dealership in the lower 48 states.
Mission accomplished: After 2 years on the road, Adam and Scooter crossed the country 6 times, logging over 80,000 miles, visiting almost 700 Harley-Davidson dealers and donating over $300,000 to our military.
What started out as a guy and his dog on a mission has become the greatest road trip in American history, not only raising money and awareness for veterans, but inspiring hope all across this great country. Seeking more adventure and raising more money for charity, Adam is taking his mission to the high seas.
Barbie the Welder
Barbie The Welder is a self-taught and acclaimed American metal sculptor, published author of six books, and advocate for the skilled trades. She has inspired and taught thousands of people to weld art through her books, metal art welding kits, and YouTube videos, and has captivated people of all ages with her inspirational seminars.
To date she has designed and created sculptures for Harley Davidson, The American Welding Society, Miller Welders, Carolina Shoe Company, two cities, and exclusive clients in 15 countries. Barbie has also welded sculptures live for audiences at shows and events including Americade Motorcycle Rally, Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, and SEMA Show in Las Vegas.
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Jess, Her Two Wheels
Jess lives in Ohio and rides across the world chronicling her adventures and creating motorcycle content from a woman's perspective. Coming from a background in art and marketing, she created the brand Her Two Wheels, and decided to start a YouTube channel to record and share the excitement of motorcycling while still being the "girl next door." Through her content, she hopes to encourage anyone to chase their dreams and learn new things!
Onboard, Jess will spark some exciting new entertainment on the cruise!
Mike "Too Tall" Reed
Custom Builders
Paul Yaffe
Paul Yaffe, founder of Paul Yaffe Originals & Paul Yaffe's Bagger Nation, has been carving a name for himself in the motorcycle industry since 1991 by producing some of the most innovative and original custom parts and bikes. Paul's unique style and commitment to creating better parts for Harley-Davidsons ignited the industry and demand for his product was intense.
Paul's designs have garnered every kind of award and accolade imaginable. He's won just about every major custom show award in the world at least once. His motorcycle creations have graced the covers of hundreds of international publications and he's made appearances on over 50 different TV shows.
In 2006, Yaffe purchased a Harley-Davidson Street Glide and, after one amazing trip through Mexico, Paul fell in love. He saw the potential in the bike and thought he could give it a killer chopper attitude while retaining all the great riding characteristics that Baggers are known for. As soon as he got back from the trip, Paul began customizing the bike. When it was finished a whole new world had opened up! Paul Yaffe's Bagger Nation was born.
Paul Yaffe and his crew have been bringing well-built, custom upgrades to the Harley aftermarket for over 30 years now. “It all started with a love of motorcycles and a curiosity and desire to see what could be made of them,” Paul says.
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Xavier Muriel
Xavier Muriel, Cycle Source Magazine’s 2019 Readers Poll Builder of the Year and builder of Easyriders Magazine’s 2019 Bike of the Year, built a custom motorcycle for us, and one lucky member of the High Seas Rally community will win it!
The love for motorcycles courses through Xavier’s bloodline. At 6 years old, Xavier received his first bike from his father — a 1974 Honda “Mr. 50.” At the same time, Xavier was also growing increasingly passionate about music, which turned into a career that took him all over the world. Xavier has played on the same stages as his childhood idols, but he never loosened his grip on his love for motorcycles.
In between tours and recording as a drummer for Buckcherry, Xavier built a motorcycle for himself, just for kicks. His father always told him, “Exhaust all efforts before you pay someone to do it.” That first bike sent Xavier down the road to begin building custom motorcycles professionally and opening his own shop. With help from friends in the industry, Xavier dove into building custom motorcycles with the same love he put into his music.
“To me, these two loves are one in the same,” Xavier says. “It is a creative process that starts with an idea from which you take the raw elements and time and hard work, and then you watch it come to life. That is the beauty from which art is created. I approach my builds in the same manner as my drumming: Less is always more. Clean and simple lines that enhance the overall feel and look of a bike. To me, that makes a motorcycle. After all they are made to be ridden.”
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Chris Callen
Chris Callen was born with a passion for motorcycles. Fueled by a desire to live, work and play in the motorcycle industry, Chris launched Cycle Source magazine 23 years ago from the back of his aftermarket parts shop. On a borrowed computer, 24 glorious pages came to life and were freely circulated within a 100-mile radius of his hometown of Pittsburgh, PA. Every 30 days since March 1997, Chris has continued to improve Cycle Source — in page count, paper quality, and content until 2005 when the magazine ceased free distribution and entered the national newsstand.
As print media and consumer habits evolved, Chris steered Cycle Source forward with new technology. From web content to video shorts through companies he started like Rally TV and then Grease & Gears TV, Callen continued to improve the reach of his content while the newsstand world changed. Events, including motorcycle shows, bike games, and mini-bike races, became another big part of Cycle Source’s operations. It was these events that gave birth to the idea of Grease & Gears Garage, where bike builders and parts manufacturers would join Cycle Source on stage at major rally venues and show their craft. Callen added in the component of streaming it live, some of the first content of its kind in the motorcycle world, and the program became a fast success.
In 2017, Callen launched the weekly simulcast ShopTalk that quickly became a live weekly version of the magazine with interviews, tech tips, and motorcycle news. Most recently, he developed the Cyber Show and Rally, the world's first-ever virtual bike show and motorcycle rally.
Jason Hallman
For Jason Hallman, the motorcycle industry runs in his blood. Hallman and his late father opened Cycle Stop USA in 2003 in Plymouth, Michigan. In 2010, the entire family of three generations relocated to Florida to take advantage of the amazing weather and year-round motorcycling. Now, Cycle Stop USA has 10 years under its belt in Lakeland, Florida, where they build three to four custom motorcycles, from Baggers to Choppers, on a commission basis each year. The shop also offers a full service department, offering everything from the basics all the way up to engine rebuilds and custom builds.
“I am looking forward to the High Seas Rally this October and I look forward to making 3,000 new friends,” Jason said.
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Rick Bray
Hailing from a racing background, Rick Bray has been building bikes since 2004 and opened his own shop, RKB Kustom Speed in Lemoore, California, in 2010. Bray specializes in custom fabrication and his awesome touch can be seen in High Seas Rally’s very own custom bike. Our award-winning custom bike builder Xavier Muriel collaborated with Rick to design and build the bike's frame from scratch. Each component of the frame was cut, bent, turned, heated, shaped, formed and finished by hand from raw materials.
That may sound like a lot of work, but Bray says any job on a motorcycle is more about passion than work. “I can’t think of much else I’d rather do,” Rick says.
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Tom Keefer
Tom Keefer, owner of Franklin Church Choppers in Pennsylvania, specializes in custom bike builds, service & repair of American V-Twin bikes. From engine work and customizations to vintage restorations and late-model repair work, Tom can do it all and he has numerous award-winning and magazine-featured custom motorcycles to prove it!
For 21 years, Franklin Church Choppers has been a go-to, one-stop shop. Tom says he looks forward to putting you back on the road and keeping you there. We’re looking forward to having him on High Seas Rally ’22.
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Dave Perewitz
Dave Perewitz is a self-taught fabricator that got his start in 1969. He founded Cycle Fab, as it was known then, in 1971 where he continued to hone his customizing and painting skills.
Dave leveraged the expanding availability of aftermarket products in the early 1980s and began designing and building motorcycles from the ground up. Although he is a master painter of all designs, it was at this time that his signature flames began standing out on most all of the motorcycles that he created. Dave has since become known as the “King of Flames” and this is one of his specialties.
A custom Cycle Fab motorcycle continues to be a status symbol among celebrities. The company has built custom creations for rock stars, NFL greats and NASCAR execs, crew chiefs and drivers.
With the influx of business, celebrity builds and greater notoriety for the company’s principal, the company changed its name to Perewitz Cycle Fabrication. As one of the nation’s original custom builders, Dave was chosen to represent the industry on numerous shows, including Discovery Channel’s now-famous Biker Build-Off, in 2003. The notoriety gained from all of the television exposure catapulted the Perewitz brand name into another category all together.
The Perewitz Cycle Fabrication team travels to nearly 35 shows and events a year where the entire team pitches in to bring “The Look” around the country.
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