Bands, tours and ephemera


Vagabondage - "If you like your music dark and beautiful, you'll love Vagabondage." - S.F. Chronicle
Feral - Oakland-based americana to scrape the soul bare.
Sinners Tonic - the electro-folk rock americana project from the queer masterminds of Emchy & Sizzle.
Rhubarb Whiskey - "...utter heartbreak and beauty all at once... excellent strings on this project include a fiddle that will make you weep into your glass of hooch, the tender mandolin and more..." - SFGate
Oakland Wine Drinkers Union (Local 88) -bringing anthems of love, booze, and crazy girls to you.
Hobo Love Tour- emchy and Waltzing Matilda of One Beer Prophet took the midwest and the south by storm on this Accordion Poetry Cabaret





photo by Dave Le

Singer-songwriter Cindy Emch plays americana and roots music with the bands Vagabondage, Rhubarb Whiskey, Sinners Tonic, Feral, and the Oakland Wine Drinkers Union . These bands that are heavily influenced by Hank Williams, Shovels and Rope, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Leadbelly, Willie Dixon, Charles Mingus, Amanda Palmer, Jason Webley, the Dresden Dolls, Weimar Berlin, flappers, whiskey, americana, sepiachord, newgrass, bluegrass and more play tunes about drinking and the open road. Emchy and her accordion and / or guitar travel the road and collaborate with other travelers with tall tales to tell.