I dunno, I saw a clip of Dylan in a tux once and he looked pretty cool.

My definition of folk music is music from someplace (or sometime) where if you want to hear music about the things you care about, you'll have to either compose it yourself or ask a neighbor. Filk is one of the most active, as in sung at every possible occasion by amateurs and pros alike, folk subgenres around, IMHO, because there aren't many songs with SF or fantasy themes on commercial radio (okay, okay, "Sleeping Satellites," "Rocketman," "Major Tom," "Ironman," "Go Go Godzilla," "Rhiannon," but I couldn't fill a CD with the full playlist and "Drops of Jupiter" is actually an extended metaphor).

Somebody they could name a folk music education program after--? Hrm. Okay, it would have to be somebody well enough known that most people would go, "Hey, yeah, it's about time," while some would blink and say, "What, _him?_" For a program in the U.S., I agree with Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie.