Bands, tours and ephemera



Feral - an Oakland-based americana trio singing beautiful songs about horrible people.

Oakland Wine Drinkers Union -bringing anthems of love, booze, and crazy girls to you.

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

Sinners Tonic - the electro-folk rock americana project from the queer masterminds of Emchy & Sizzle.

Vagabondage - "If you like your music dark and beautiful, you'll love Vagabondage." - S.F. Chronicle


photo by Dave Le

Singer-songwriter Cindy Emch plays americana, outlaw country, and roots music with the Secret Emchy Society, 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, Carolyn Mark, Neko Case, Elle King, Willie Dixon, Charles Mingus, Amanda Palmer, Jason Webley, the Dresden Dolls, Weimar Berlin, flappers, whiskey, americana, sepiachord, newgrass, bluegrass. She often plays 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.