Tim Brickley

Tim Brickley – Singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, engineer, and producer. In the mid-1970s, Brickley moved to Indianapolis from California. After graduating from North Central High School and Indiana University, Indy-based Brickley has had a varied career that represents multiples genres, but mainly jazz and rock. Within those genres, he has carried out the roles of performer, songwriter, composer, leader, engineer, and producer. As a jazz singer ala Harry Connick Jr., he has led his own quintet since 1990 and his own big band since 2001. He also sings with his rock band the Bleeding Hearts, which plays songs written by Brickley and his New York-based partner David Rheins. As a spin-off of his jazz groups, he also leads the Happy Millionaires, a ten-piece party band that plays horn-flavored rock & roll and R & B. Also a composer for television, film, radio, and theatre, he won a local Emmy in 1998 for the score for Hoosier Hoops: The Golden Era. In addition, his song “Tangled and Tempted” is on the soundtrack for Going All the Way starring Ben Affleck and Rachel Weisz. Since 1986, Brickley has also been the music director and principal composer for Indy’s Phoenix Theatre. Lastly, he has owned and operated his own recording studio, Hit City Recording, in Broad Ripple, since 1996.