Nice to hear from Peggy Seeger.

I think there was a little more to it than than that. Let's face it no one gave a monkey's bum what a gang of learned intellectuals got up to in the back room of a pub.

The shit hit the fan around 1965 - much later than the period in question. Dylan was touring, Donovan was in the charts. Even small towns had teo or three folk clubs. For the only time in our history, something many people still think of as folk music was in everybody's imagination.

Then came the NME interview with Ewan when he said that Dylan and Donovan weren't folk music. the guy was only human, I suppose it must have been a piss off seeing these people twenty and thirty years younger than himself having mega success as songwriters on the pitch he had helped to create.

That's when it became okay for people to voice their intolerance. I will echo what Peggy said about him being a nice approachable man. they were both nice people. It was a pity their disciples weren't quite as nice, and took great pride in excluding huge trenches of the population from the folk revival.