Join us Pride Weekend for an all-female Americana showcase featuring The Secret Emchy Society and Ashleigh Flynn & the Riveters.
SECRET EMCHY SOCIETY (Oakland)
Cindy Emch (Emchy) could never be labelled as ordinary. No Depression christened her “Equal parts June Carter Cash, Nick Cave and Murder By Death.” From Under the Basement magazine summed her up by saying, “Imagine Bill Monroe and Sid Vicious having kids together.” Common Folk Music went a step further, suggesting a sound equivalent to “the glint of a switchblade held to your throat.”
Listen:
https://www.reverbnation.com/secretemchysociety
http://www.emchy.com/
ASHLEIGH FLYNN & THE RIVETERS (Portland, Oregon)
*All-Gal Southern Rock and Folk*
Like the Ohio to muddy Ol’ Miss, Ashleigh Flynn follows her troubadour heart. Flynn grew up in Kentucky and cut her teeth on local bluegrass music and Motown. A prolific songwriter and performer blessed with unbridled charisma, she has taken the stage at Bonnaroo and Bumbershoot, Delfest, High Sierra and Vancouver Folk Fest and toured with the likes of Todd Snider and the Wood Brothers.
With a fresh slate of songs in her arsenal, Flynn returned to the studio in 2017 to develop a bold new project: Ashleigh Flynn & the Riveters. In both name and spirit, this all-female band is a nod to the “Rosie the Riveter” archetype and an homage to the millions of American women who entered this country’s maledominated workforce during World War II and kicked some serious ass. The new band hearkens back to early Stones and ‘70s psychedelic country rock, yet the result feels simultaneously new and necessary.
Listen:
https://www.reverbnation.com/ashleighflynn
http://www.ashleighflynn.com/