Cindy Emch (vocals / guitar) sings foot-stompin' heart-breakin' songs about good friends and hard times. She also writes most of the bands songs and makes a good rhubarb cocktail. Before starting SES she was also in Vagabondage, Rhubarb Whiskey, Feral, and the Oakland Wine Drinkers Union.
Michele Kappel (harmonies / drums) is Baltimore bred (getting her musical start in a theater company there) and Bay Area seasoned by stints in The Kirby Grips (Garage-Pop/Sympathy For the Record Industry), The Frisky Frolics (20s/30s Jazz and Hokum), Laura Benitez & the Heartache and The Heartache Sisters (Country), and her own torch and twang project, Yours Truly, Michele. Photo by Jill Tracy (2021)
Marco Baroz (lead guitar) is a Texas born, Bay Area based guitarist who plays with both Secret Emchy Society and Lucy & the Long Haul. He is awesome.
Hans Winold (upright bass / harmonica) was born in the midwest and has plucked his strings in punk, jazz, folkpunk and country bands (Bug, FrontJunk, Vagabondage) all along the West Coast. He has been playing music with Emchy since the late 2000's.