Approximately 250 people traveled to Powderly, Kentucky, for NordicFest, a 2-day outdoor white power music festival held over a rainy Memorial Day weekend, May 29-30, 2000 and hosted by the Imperial Klans of America. The event featured the bands No Alibi, Extreme Hatred, Youngland, and Hatecrime, Resistance and Panzerfaust Records selling CD's and other paraphernalia, and a speech by Matt Hale. White supremacists traveled from Florida, Vermont, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota, and California to attend the event.