Folk Icons & Hype? This has all come about through the increase in large concert and festival venues. Icons and hype rarely, if ever, existed in the days of smallish clubs and festivals where guests and audence, performers and punters, mixed in the same halls, rooms and pubs. Thankfully there are still many clubs and festivals arround where performers and audences are all made to feel part of the one event and not "them and us".   Cheers