Organizers of an annual Christian music festival held in northwest Iowa are hoping to break an attendance record that was set long ago by the Ku Klux Klan. Rob Roozeboom, founder and president of Rise Ministries, says they discovered a K-K-K rally nearly a century ago in Sheldon drew an estimated 25-thousand people.

The goal is to attract at least 25-thousand-and-one people to this summer’s RiseFest Christian music festival June 7th & 8th. Roozeboom says he wants to erase what he calls a hated-filled record from Sheldon’s past.

This year’s RiseFest music line-up includes Ben Fuller, Skillet, We Are Messengers, and Phil Wickham. The two-day festival also includes speakers, seminars, and activities for kids.