All-singing, all-dancing, this is the lively, lovely story of a village polka band and its city cousins, shot in the bread-basket of southern Minnesota. “Singin’ in the Grain” captures what it means to be a Czech-American today and, by extension, one’s own identity as an American. In folk song 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 post-communist 1989 Velvet Revolution, a new generation of immigrants arrives with their own folk-Slavic beat and different vibes, a far cry from Eddie’s world.

As Minnesota’s “Czech Triangle” (New Prague,Montgomery, Veseli and Lonsdale) and St.Paul’s Sokol Hall celebrate with symbolic food, dance, costume, parades and holidays defining who they are, the film becomes a passport for re-examining America’s historic immigrant odyssey.

Movie tickets may be purchased online in advance of the show. All tickets are general admission seating, you may pick your tickets up at Will Call at the high school on the afternoon of the show or at the Community Education office through May 3rd. Tickets may also be purchased in person at the Lonsdale Chamber of Commerce office and the New Prague Area Community Education office.