POLKA TIME


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 Three ballrooms. Five days. Thousands of polka lovers.
For over three decades, “polka people” across the country have flocked to a tiny Minnesota town each July for an epic event: The Gibbon Polka Fest. But as the ballroom’s days are numbered and the crowd gets older, are we witnessing polka’s last gasp?

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