Please direct publicity inquiries to Rachel Hurley / Sweetheart PR - [email protected]
Please direct booking inquiries to Mickey Darius / Ivy Agency - [email protected]
Please direct booking inquiries to Mickey Darius / Ivy Agency - [email protected]
Secret Emchy Society in the news:
2024
The POUNCE! Project: Raising Awareness for Women's Rights (SF Bay Times)
The Best of AMERICANAFEST 2024 (Concert Hopper)
AMERICANAFEST 2024 Must See (Americana Highways)
Secret Emchy Society and More End AMERICANAFEST in High Style (Nashville Scene)
Through the Lens - AMERICANAFEST 2024 (NoDepression)
The Spin: AmericanaFest — Secret Emchy Society and More at The 5 Spot, 9/21/2024 (Nashville Scene)
AmericanaFest 2024: Saturday Show Recommendations (Nashville Scene)
AMERICANAFEST 2024 Reveals Full Schedule & Lineup With New Showcases, Panels, & Special Events (Music Mecca)
Labor Day Weekend Music Festivals (SF Chronicle)
AMERICANAFEST expands line-up (Country Standard Time)
END OF PRETTY IS SECRET EMCHY SOCIETY’S SINGLE OUT NOW (Edgar Allan Poets)
INTERVIEW: Secret Emchy Society Rejects Envy and Competition on “End of Pretty” (Rainbow Rodeo)
AUK - EP Round Up (Americana-UK)
Queer Artists Take the Stage (Theater Storm)
COWBOYS ARE FREQUENTLY SECRETLY FOND OF EACH OTHER IS SECRET EMCHY SOCIETY’S SINGLE OUT NOW (Edgar Allan Poets)
Beyonce's Country Swerve and four other country artists to note (48Hills)
SXSW IN TWENTY (Plus a Dozen for the Daring) (Pandora.com)
RevFest Roundup (Austin Chronicle)
Secret Emchy Solo at the MakeOut Room (SF Gate)
The Best Music of 2023 (48Hills)
2023
AmericanaFest at Vinyl Lounge - in the picture (Nashville Scene)
Hips Don't Die - A Halloween Playlist (48Hills)
Queer Takeover of AmericanaFest (Bluegrass Situation)
AmericanaFest: Day 5 (Americana Highways)
Best of AmericanaFest 2023 (Concert Hopper)
20 Fun things to do this week (7x7)
Inclusive Country in Eureka (Times Standard)
Under the Stars (48 Hills)
Because It's There (North Coast Journal)
Things to do in Santa Cruz (Good Times)
Live! Secret Emchy Society- Sequoia Rose- Corduroy Gangsters (Lost Coast Output)
Going Out (Bay Area Reporter)
Daily Inspiration: Meet Cindy Emch (Nashville Voyager)
2022
Five Queer Country Songs to Make the Yuletide Gay (TheBoot)
Through the Lens: My 2022 in Review - The Best of Everything (NoDepression)
Favorite Americana Albums of 2022 (ConcertHopper)
REVIEW: Secret Emchy Society "Gold Country / Country Gold" (Americana Highways)
Review Roundup: Secret Emchy Society and Laney Joney (ConcertHopper)
Through the Lens: A Fond Look Back at Americanafest 2022 (NoDepression)
AmericanaFest Queer Takeover (Country Queer)
Jack Barksdale's Roots Revival Podcast: Featuring Cindy Emch of Secret Emchy Society
Under the Stars: Queer Country Gold (48 Hills)
Song Premiere: Secret Emchy Society "Another Time and Place" (Americana Highways)
Through the Lens: An Insider's Guide to Americanafest (NoDepression)
With Gold Country / Country Gold Secret Emchy Society Revels in Audacity and Style (No Depression)
Our Ten Favorite Americana Albums of 2022 So Far (ConcertHopper)
Secret Emchy Society: Queer Country Music from Oakland's Honky Tonk Heroes (East Bay Express)
Cindy Emch: Gathering on Country's Angry Edge (CountryQueer)
Secret Emchy Society Releases "I Wish I Was In Texas With You" (The Country Note)
Secret Emchy Society Drops Colorful Honky Tonk Swooner "I Wish I Was in Texas With You" (Glide Magazine)
CQ RoundUp: April 27 (CountryQueer)
Pride, Juneteenth Parties, and More Coming to Vanderbilt Street (Patch)
Qmmunity: A Gay Ol Country Time (The Austin Chronicle)
SXSW 2022: The Interviews (Rock & Roll Globe)
Secret Emchy Society Navigates a Complicated Social Circle on 'Think I Do' (Wide Open Country)
Put Her Name in Your Mouth (Atwood Magazine)
Qmmunity - A Gay Ol' Country Time (Austin Chronicle)
First Lady of Queer Country, Cindy Emchy of Secret Emchy Society, Announces New Album (MySoCalledGayLife.uk)
Dance Like the Word is Ending - An Interview with Cindy Emch (AB Records Zine, Issue 64)
Going Out, Homing's InGoing Out, Homing's In (Bay Area Reporter)
22 Small Artists You Should Listen to in 2022 (Y'all Should Listen)
2021
The National Queer Arts Festival Showcase Celebrates the History & Future of Queer Country Music (Wide Open Country)
Country Queer Documents Genre's Shift to LGBTQ+ Inclusivity [KQED]
Pride Month Events Spotlight a Years-Long Surge of LGBTQ Voices in Roots Music (WMOT Roots Radio)
PRIDE MONTH: Cindy Emch Gathers Community For The Future is Queer Country (Adobe & Teardrops)
The Future Is Queer Country Showcase 2021 Reclaims Americana & Roots Music (American Songwriter)
The National Queer Arts Festival Showcase with Amythist Kiah, Lavendar Country, Delila Black, and more in celebration of Pride Month (GuitarGirlMag)
Pride Calendar 2021: How to Virtually Celebrate With Festivals, Concerts & More (Billboard)
THE FUTURE IS QUEER COUNTRY AT THE ALL-STAR NQAF SHOWCASE (CountryQueer)
2020
20 Standout Roots & Americana Albums of 2020 (Concert Hopper)
Truth, Hope, And Inspiration: My Favorite Music From 2020 (Americana Highways)
Dance Like the World is Ending with Country Singer Cindy Emch (KALW / NPR Affiliate)
Queer, Country, and Spooky (CountryQueer.com)
The Chaser, Secret Emchy Society (CountryQueer.com)
OFF THE STAGE: SECRET EMCHY SOCIETY (MotherChurchPew.com
15 Standout Americana and Roots Music Release of 2020 So Far (Concert Hopper)
Secret Emchy Society Serves Up A 21st -Century Honky-Tonk Classic With “The Chaser” (Americana Highways)
Young Folks - 10 folk / acoustic / indie folk / alt-country / singer-songwriter jams (Last Day Deaf)
Review: The Secret Emchy Society (Country Music Views)
Secret Emchy Society: The Chaser Review (Michael's Music Blog)
The Digital Fix Interview (Digital Fix)
A Not-At-All Exhaustive LGBTQIA+ Country Playlist (NPR)
Secret Emchy Society Proves She's the Friend We Want in Our Corner (TheBoot)
Live-ish in the Studio (Country in the UK)
The Apocalypse of Her Dreams (Country Queer)
Freshly Squeezed Vol. 137 (B-Sides & Badlands)
Secret Emchy Society Melds Classic Country and Punk Ethos on 'The Chaser' (Concert Hopper)
Adobe & Teardrops Episode: 119
Secret Emchy Society Traces Life's Highs and Lows on 'The Chaser' (No Depression)
Secret Emchy Society 'The Chaser' (Americana-UK)
Premiere: Secret Emchy Society's 'Hell is a Hard Place' (Wide Open Country)
Secret Emchy Society: Howlin' Sober at the Moon (The Autumn Roses)
Secret Emchy Society Release: Howlin' Sober at the Moon (Vents Magazine)
FFS 5 with Secret Emchy Society (For Folks Sake)
Alternate Root: Weekly Top Ten (Spotify)
Secret Emchy Society Makes It's Own Old School Country Rules (Glide Magazine)
Looking Ahead: A Release Calendar (Billboard)
Secret Emchy Society 'Dance Like the World is Ending': Where you feel you belong again in this world (Come Here Floyd)
New Music: Secret Emchy Society - Everything Was Fine (Post To Wire)
Secret Emchy Society offer apocalyptic send-off with new song (B-Sides & Badlands)
Stream and Watch Local Music During Quarantine (SF Weekly)
Music Pick Live Streaming the Nuncheon Sessions (LA Weekly)
The Truth Behind the Song #23 - Secret Emchy Society's 'Everything Was Fine' (Belles & Gals)
Secret Emchy Society: "Everything Was Fine" (The Autumn Roses)
Song Premiere: Secret Emchy Society’s “Everything Was Fine” (Americana Highways)
CROWDFUNDING RADAR: Jill Andrews, Red Dirt Girls, and Secret Emchy Society (No Depression)
Secret Emchy Society Campaign Brings Queer Country Together (Country Queer)
2019
Queer as Folk: Country Queer lifts LGBTQ voices (The Bohemian)
Out West: The Return of Country Music’s First Gay Artist (Sonoma Valley Sun)
Gay Country Music is Hot, Pardner... (Sonoma Index-Tribune)
Lilycat on Stuff: Podcast Interview and Performance (FCCFreeRadio)
Secret Emchy Society featured on SoundON:Country Pride (pandora.com)
Flat Out Screaming Revolution [Secret Emchy Society mention] (Slate.com)
Party with Polythene Pam [Secret Emchy Society mention] (BayAreaReporter.com)
Lavender Country, Secret Emchy Society, & Aaron J. Shay! (theStranger.com)
Secret Emchy Society gives off the classic campfire sing-a-long vibe with new record (RockthePigeon.com)
Queersplaining: Queer Country? Yes. Queer Country (Queersplaining.com)
Indoor Campfire - The Secret Emchy Society Celebrates 'Mark's Yard' Release with Sing-A-Long Show at The Lost Church (StrattonSetList.com)
2018
Top 100 Albums of 2018 (Atlanta Auditory Association)
The Return of Lavender Country - A Triple Bill of Tasty Twangin' Tunes (Bay Area Reporter)
Queer Country Quarterly October ’18: Secret Emchy Society, Viva DeConcini, Karen & the Sorrows (StrangeFireMagazine.com)
Big Apple Rodeo – The Secret Emchy Society Takes Queer Country Music to Brooklyn’s Branded Saloon Saturday Night (StrattonSetList.com)
Pride Guide: Queer Country Showcase (DoTheBay.com)
The Secret Emchy Society: Queer Country Music Is Country Music For All (WaxWingMag.org)
On Our Radar: Dot’s Sunday Hoedown (Americana/Folk Showcase) in the East Bay on Sunday! (RockthePigeon.com)
Queer Country Music Icon Cindy Emch is Creating Country Campfire Covers (RockthePigeon.com)
2017
Behind The Music: Interview With Cindy Emch – “The First Lady of Queer Country” (HuffingtonPost.com)
The Secret Emchy Society A Secret No More (NoDepression.com)
Love Songs and Illegal Fireworks - Secret Emchy Society on Revelator Radio
SECRET EMCHY SOCIETY - THE STARS FALL SHOOTING INTO TWANGSVILLE (AmericanRootsUK.com)
Secret Emchy Society – The Stars Fall Shooting Into Twangsville (altcountryforum.nl)
PRIDE MONTH: Cindy Emch Gathers Community For The Future is Queer Country (Adobe & Teardrops)
The Future Is Queer Country Showcase 2021 Reclaims Americana & Roots Music (American Songwriter)
The National Queer Arts Festival Showcase with Amythist Kiah, Lavendar Country, Delila Black, and more in celebration of Pride Month: (Girl Guitar Mag)
Pride Calendar 2021: How to Virtually Celebrate With Festivals, Concerts & More (Billboard)
THE FUTURE IS QUEER COUNTRY AT THE ALL-STAR NQAF SHOWCASE (Country Queer)
The POUNCE! Project: Raising Awareness for Women's Rights (SF Bay Times)
The Best of AMERICANAFEST 2024 (Concert Hopper)
AMERICANAFEST 2024 Must See (Americana Highways)
Secret Emchy Society and More End AMERICANAFEST in High Style (Nashville Scene)
Through the Lens - AMERICANAFEST 2024 (NoDepression)
The Spin: AmericanaFest — Secret Emchy Society and More at The 5 Spot, 9/21/2024 (Nashville Scene)
AmericanaFest 2024: Saturday Show Recommendations (Nashville Scene)
AMERICANAFEST 2024 Reveals Full Schedule & Lineup With New Showcases, Panels, & Special Events (Music Mecca)
Labor Day Weekend Music Festivals (SF Chronicle)
AMERICANAFEST expands line-up (Country Standard Time)
END OF PRETTY IS SECRET EMCHY SOCIETY’S SINGLE OUT NOW (Edgar Allan Poets)
INTERVIEW: Secret Emchy Society Rejects Envy and Competition on “End of Pretty” (Rainbow Rodeo)
AUK - EP Round Up (Americana-UK)
Queer Artists Take the Stage (Theater Storm)
COWBOYS ARE FREQUENTLY SECRETLY FOND OF EACH OTHER IS SECRET EMCHY SOCIETY’S SINGLE OUT NOW (Edgar Allan Poets)
Beyonce's Country Swerve and four other country artists to note (48Hills)
SXSW IN TWENTY (Plus a Dozen for the Daring) (Pandora.com)
RevFest Roundup (Austin Chronicle)
Secret Emchy Solo at the MakeOut Room (SF Gate)
The Best Music of 2023 (48Hills)
2023
AmericanaFest at Vinyl Lounge - in the picture (Nashville Scene)
Hips Don't Die - A Halloween Playlist (48Hills)
Queer Takeover of AmericanaFest (Bluegrass Situation)
AmericanaFest: Day 5 (Americana Highways)
Best of AmericanaFest 2023 (Concert Hopper)
20 Fun things to do this week (7x7)
Inclusive Country in Eureka (Times Standard)
Under the Stars (48 Hills)
Because It's There (North Coast Journal)
Things to do in Santa Cruz (Good Times)
Live! Secret Emchy Society- Sequoia Rose- Corduroy Gangsters (Lost Coast Output)
Going Out (Bay Area Reporter)
Daily Inspiration: Meet Cindy Emch (Nashville Voyager)
2022
Five Queer Country Songs to Make the Yuletide Gay (TheBoot)
Through the Lens: My 2022 in Review - The Best of Everything (NoDepression)
Favorite Americana Albums of 2022 (ConcertHopper)
REVIEW: Secret Emchy Society "Gold Country / Country Gold" (Americana Highways)
Review Roundup: Secret Emchy Society and Laney Joney (ConcertHopper)
Through the Lens: A Fond Look Back at Americanafest 2022 (NoDepression)
AmericanaFest Queer Takeover (Country Queer)
Jack Barksdale's Roots Revival Podcast: Featuring Cindy Emch of Secret Emchy Society
Under the Stars: Queer Country Gold (48 Hills)
Song Premiere: Secret Emchy Society "Another Time and Place" (Americana Highways)
Through the Lens: An Insider's Guide to Americanafest (NoDepression)
With Gold Country / Country Gold Secret Emchy Society Revels in Audacity and Style (No Depression)
Our Ten Favorite Americana Albums of 2022 So Far (ConcertHopper)
Secret Emchy Society: Queer Country Music from Oakland's Honky Tonk Heroes (East Bay Express)
Cindy Emch: Gathering on Country's Angry Edge (CountryQueer)
Secret Emchy Society Releases "I Wish I Was In Texas With You" (The Country Note)
Secret Emchy Society Drops Colorful Honky Tonk Swooner "I Wish I Was in Texas With You" (Glide Magazine)
CQ RoundUp: April 27 (CountryQueer)
Pride, Juneteenth Parties, and More Coming to Vanderbilt Street (Patch)
Qmmunity: A Gay Ol Country Time (The Austin Chronicle)
SXSW 2022: The Interviews (Rock & Roll Globe)
Secret Emchy Society Navigates a Complicated Social Circle on 'Think I Do' (Wide Open Country)
Put Her Name in Your Mouth (Atwood Magazine)
Qmmunity - A Gay Ol' Country Time (Austin Chronicle)
First Lady of Queer Country, Cindy Emchy of Secret Emchy Society, Announces New Album (MySoCalledGayLife.uk)
Dance Like the Word is Ending - An Interview with Cindy Emch (AB Records Zine, Issue 64)
Going Out, Homing's InGoing Out, Homing's In (Bay Area Reporter)
22 Small Artists You Should Listen to in 2022 (Y'all Should Listen)
2021
The National Queer Arts Festival Showcase Celebrates the History & Future of Queer Country Music (Wide Open Country)
Country Queer Documents Genre's Shift to LGBTQ+ Inclusivity [KQED]
Pride Month Events Spotlight a Years-Long Surge of LGBTQ Voices in Roots Music (WMOT Roots Radio)
PRIDE MONTH: Cindy Emch Gathers Community For The Future is Queer Country (Adobe & Teardrops)
The Future Is Queer Country Showcase 2021 Reclaims Americana & Roots Music (American Songwriter)
The National Queer Arts Festival Showcase with Amythist Kiah, Lavendar Country, Delila Black, and more in celebration of Pride Month (GuitarGirlMag)
Pride Calendar 2021: How to Virtually Celebrate With Festivals, Concerts & More (Billboard)
THE FUTURE IS QUEER COUNTRY AT THE ALL-STAR NQAF SHOWCASE (CountryQueer)
2020
20 Standout Roots & Americana Albums of 2020 (Concert Hopper)
Truth, Hope, And Inspiration: My Favorite Music From 2020 (Americana Highways)
Dance Like the World is Ending with Country Singer Cindy Emch (KALW / NPR Affiliate)
Queer, Country, and Spooky (CountryQueer.com)
The Chaser, Secret Emchy Society (CountryQueer.com)
OFF THE STAGE: SECRET EMCHY SOCIETY (MotherChurchPew.com
15 Standout Americana and Roots Music Release of 2020 So Far (Concert Hopper)
Secret Emchy Society Serves Up A 21st -Century Honky-Tonk Classic With “The Chaser” (Americana Highways)
Young Folks - 10 folk / acoustic / indie folk / alt-country / singer-songwriter jams (Last Day Deaf)
Review: The Secret Emchy Society (Country Music Views)
Secret Emchy Society: The Chaser Review (Michael's Music Blog)
The Digital Fix Interview (Digital Fix)
A Not-At-All Exhaustive LGBTQIA+ Country Playlist (NPR)
Secret Emchy Society Proves She's the Friend We Want in Our Corner (TheBoot)
Live-ish in the Studio (Country in the UK)
The Apocalypse of Her Dreams (Country Queer)
Freshly Squeezed Vol. 137 (B-Sides & Badlands)
Secret Emchy Society Melds Classic Country and Punk Ethos on 'The Chaser' (Concert Hopper)
Adobe & Teardrops Episode: 119
Secret Emchy Society Traces Life's Highs and Lows on 'The Chaser' (No Depression)
Secret Emchy Society 'The Chaser' (Americana-UK)
Premiere: Secret Emchy Society's 'Hell is a Hard Place' (Wide Open Country)
Secret Emchy Society: Howlin' Sober at the Moon (The Autumn Roses)
Secret Emchy Society Release: Howlin' Sober at the Moon (Vents Magazine)
FFS 5 with Secret Emchy Society (For Folks Sake)
Alternate Root: Weekly Top Ten (Spotify)
Secret Emchy Society Makes It's Own Old School Country Rules (Glide Magazine)
Looking Ahead: A Release Calendar (Billboard)
Secret Emchy Society 'Dance Like the World is Ending': Where you feel you belong again in this world (Come Here Floyd)
New Music: Secret Emchy Society - Everything Was Fine (Post To Wire)
Secret Emchy Society offer apocalyptic send-off with new song (B-Sides & Badlands)
Stream and Watch Local Music During Quarantine (SF Weekly)
Music Pick Live Streaming the Nuncheon Sessions (LA Weekly)
The Truth Behind the Song #23 - Secret Emchy Society's 'Everything Was Fine' (Belles & Gals)
Secret Emchy Society: "Everything Was Fine" (The Autumn Roses)
Song Premiere: Secret Emchy Society’s “Everything Was Fine” (Americana Highways)
CROWDFUNDING RADAR: Jill Andrews, Red Dirt Girls, and Secret Emchy Society (No Depression)
Secret Emchy Society Campaign Brings Queer Country Together (Country Queer)
2019
Queer as Folk: Country Queer lifts LGBTQ voices (The Bohemian)
Out West: The Return of Country Music’s First Gay Artist (Sonoma Valley Sun)
Gay Country Music is Hot, Pardner... (Sonoma Index-Tribune)
Lilycat on Stuff: Podcast Interview and Performance (FCCFreeRadio)
Secret Emchy Society featured on SoundON:Country Pride (pandora.com)
Flat Out Screaming Revolution [Secret Emchy Society mention] (Slate.com)
Party with Polythene Pam [Secret Emchy Society mention] (BayAreaReporter.com)
Lavender Country, Secret Emchy Society, & Aaron J. Shay! (theStranger.com)
Secret Emchy Society gives off the classic campfire sing-a-long vibe with new record (RockthePigeon.com)
Queersplaining: Queer Country? Yes. Queer Country (Queersplaining.com)
Indoor Campfire - The Secret Emchy Society Celebrates 'Mark's Yard' Release with Sing-A-Long Show at The Lost Church (StrattonSetList.com)
2018
Top 100 Albums of 2018 (Atlanta Auditory Association)
The Return of Lavender Country - A Triple Bill of Tasty Twangin' Tunes (Bay Area Reporter)
Queer Country Quarterly October ’18: Secret Emchy Society, Viva DeConcini, Karen & the Sorrows (StrangeFireMagazine.com)
Big Apple Rodeo – The Secret Emchy Society Takes Queer Country Music to Brooklyn’s Branded Saloon Saturday Night (StrattonSetList.com)
Pride Guide: Queer Country Showcase (DoTheBay.com)
The Secret Emchy Society: Queer Country Music Is Country Music For All (WaxWingMag.org)
On Our Radar: Dot’s Sunday Hoedown (Americana/Folk Showcase) in the East Bay on Sunday! (RockthePigeon.com)
Queer Country Music Icon Cindy Emch is Creating Country Campfire Covers (RockthePigeon.com)
2017
Behind The Music: Interview With Cindy Emch – “The First Lady of Queer Country” (HuffingtonPost.com)
The Secret Emchy Society A Secret No More (NoDepression.com)
Love Songs and Illegal Fireworks - Secret Emchy Society on Revelator Radio
SECRET EMCHY SOCIETY - THE STARS FALL SHOOTING INTO TWANGSVILLE (AmericanRootsUK.com)
Secret Emchy Society – The Stars Fall Shooting Into Twangsville (altcountryforum.nl)
PRIDE MONTH: Cindy Emch Gathers Community For The Future is Queer Country (Adobe & Teardrops)
The Future Is Queer Country Showcase 2021 Reclaims Americana & Roots Music (American Songwriter)
The National Queer Arts Festival Showcase with Amythist Kiah, Lavendar Country, Delila Black, and more in celebration of Pride Month: (Girl Guitar Mag)
Pride Calendar 2021: How to Virtually Celebrate With Festivals, Concerts & More (Billboard)
THE FUTURE IS QUEER COUNTRY AT THE ALL-STAR NQAF SHOWCASE (Country Queer)
