The Pedigree Chums - Who's Who

Will and Chris Lingard

Formerly based in South / West Yorkshire, now living in East Lancashire, Will and Chris have been singing in and around folk clubs and festivals from the early revival days. Mainly traditional in taste, they enjoy singing a wide variety of English / Irish material. Both are talented instrumentalists (guitar, fiddle, accordion, recorder) and are founder members of “Quadrille” – a busy ceilidh band working in the Lancashire / Yorkshire area.

Stephanie Emmett

First sang folk in the late sixties at the Selby Folk Club. She moved to Hong Kong and, during her 25 years there, founded the Hong Kong folk society with her husband and a couple of friends. She sang in several folk groups, including a four-part harmony group, for some 16 years and was also the first musician for the Hong Kong Morris dancers! In 1998 she returned to her native Yorkshire, where, apart from the Pedigree Chums, she also sings with the Silsden Singers and other friends.

Paul Reade

Started singing during his student days in Leeds in the mid-sixties, moving on to be a well-known figure on the Manchester folk scene in the late sixties and seventies, as a solo singer and in a duo with Al Lawrence (now with the Stationary Willberries). He organised a number of folk clubs, notably the famous "Railway" at Sale, but also in Dobcross and Hollinwood, and was for many years one of the residents at the legendary Manchester Sports Guild (MSG). In the early eighties he moved to East Lancashire, where he also ran a number of clubs. Currently he is one of the residents at Skipton Folk Club and also writes articles regularly for folk magazines such as "Tykes' News" and "Folk North West". He has been married for 30 years to singer / songwriter Kath Reade.