No trouble reported at white supremacist concert in Jacksonville

JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA - Several dozen members of a violent white supremacist group attended a rock concert Saturday after the event was barred from Daytona Beach earlier this week. <br> <br> Members of Hammerskin Nation listened to loud music featuring angry lyrics about violence to minorities at Hammerfest 2002, but no arrests were reported. <br> <br> The concert was much smaller than Hammerfest 2001, which drew about 600 skinheads to a small city west of Atlanta. Still, police supervised the Hammerskins at Saturday&#39;s concert and a nearby hotel where some stayed. <br> <br> The location was kept secret until patrons reached Jacksonville, where e-mailed instructions told them to meet a man in a parking lot who would sell tickets for $25 and direct them to the event, The Florida Times-Union reported in a story for Sunday&#39;s editions. No media were allowed in the concert. <br> <br> Plans to stage the concert in Daytona Beach were changed after officials there said they would not issue permits and a bar canceled two of the featured bands when it learned about the group. <br> <br> Hammerskin Nation uses Confederate flags and Nazi swastikas as its emblems and is an umbrella organization for the skinhead movement. It has sponsored an annual Hammerfest since 1997, according to the Anti-Defamation League, which tracks white supremacist groups. <br> <br> Sharon Ashton, a spokeswoman for Jacksonville Mayor John Delaney, said Thursday the group would need a permit if it wanted to hold its gathering in a city park, but would need no permission if it held a concert in a business, such as a hotel.