The Kipper Family

The Kipper Family was a two-man novelty English folk group, performed as Sid Kipper and his father Henry, supposedly recently discovered traditional folk singers from Norfolk, in reality played by Chris Sugden (as Sid Kipper) and Dick Nudds (as Henry Kipper). In their backstory, they had inherited a family tradition of novel folk songs, all careful parodies of well known English traditional songs, in reality penned by Nudds and Sugden. The existence of the supposed family tradition (accompanied by a well thumbed "family song book"), and even the stage name of the duo, evoked parallels with the real world (and still active) Copper Family, a family of traditional singers from Sussex. When "Henry Kipper" supposedly retired from live performance on account of age, the son Sid was continued in character by Sugden for a number of years afterwards. The pair were a popular act on the UK folk club and festival scene from the early 1980s to the end of 1991.