A mighty wind

Musikproducenten Irving Steinbloom dör och hans son Jonathan (Bob Balaban) vill sätta upp en konsert till hans ära med alla de grupper och soloartister som Irving hittade och förde fram i rampljuset. Filmen är en påhittad dokumentär om en påhittad person, och i en sekvens kontaktar Jonathan Lars Olfen (Ed Begley Jr.) på PBN (Public Broadcasting Network) för att höra ifall de är intresserade av att sända konserten på TV. Lars är intresserad och han berättar varför han tycker så mycket om folkmusik:

Lars: "Folk music is in my blood. You know, as a young boy, in Sweden, you know, I was born there and came here at an early age, but we'd go back to Sweden every year, my family and I, in the winter, which was a flip from the normal thing, but every Olfen kid, Lars, Sven, Pippi and Liv, we were trained on the dulcimer. For the earliest age, when you couId hold a rattIe, you'd hoId a duIcimer. And we Iearned to pIay. And eventually I had a garage band in Stockholm, which was a challenge in its own right, you know, to keep an instrument tuned with that temperature swing. You know, there's a block warmer for the Volvo in the garage but it's pretty cold in there in the winter. So we played and I had a hit that you might have heard of - Hur Är Läget, Lilla Gumman? Which means, 'How's It Hanging, Grandma?' and it was big on the Swedish charts. I got in touch with the American music. I Ioved that and thrived on that... so I came here and became part of that scene."