Entertainment - High Seas Rally

All Concerts & Events Are Included in Your Cruise Price!

Concerts

Colt Ford

Foghat

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

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.

Dave Nichols

Roy Riley

Paul Yaffe Special Guest

Adam Sandoval Special Guest

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Barbie the Welder

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