Singin in the Grain

Allsinging alldancing this is the lively lovely story of a village polka band and its city cousins shot in the breadbasket of southern Minnesota Singin in the Grain captures what it means to be a CzechAmerican today and by extension ones own identity as an American In folksong and dance the Eddie Shimota Polka Band is followed for more than 40 years and three generations by documentarist Al Milgrom The Dinkytown Uprising After the postcommunist 1989 Velvet Revolution a new generation of immigrants arrives with their own folkSlavic beat and different vibes a far cry from Eddies world As Minnesotas Czech Triangle New Prague Montgomery Veseli and Lonsdale and St Pauls Sokol Hall celebrate with symbolic food dance costume parades and holidays defining who they are the film becomes a passport for reexamining Americas historic immigrant odyssey