What / Who is a folk icon? The only one I'd grant that title (and he probably wouldn't thank me for it) is Pete Seeger.

He did disappoint me the only time I saw him live, though - at Tonder in 1990. His voice was far gone by then, and I thought he was trying to make up for it by moving about the stage with exaggerated liveliness. I now think I may have been unfair, that he was just being his usual self. I don't know, and I now remember that weekend with a lot more fondness (sentimentality?).