Tim Brickley

Tim Brickley is an Indianapolis, IN singer/songwriter/multi- instrumentalist/bandleader and producer who the Indianapolis Star has described as a musical "local legend" and Nuvo Magazine calls a “pillar of the Indiana music scene.” He writes with longtime collaborator (and former Rolling Stone/Spin magazine staffer) David Rheins, performs rock (with band The Bleeding Hearts), and jazz (with his Quintet and Big Band.) Tim is a recording engineer and producer, whose studio, Hit City Recording, is one of the longest continually-operating recording studios in the United States. He composes and produces music for film, broadcast and theatre and received an Emmy Award in 1998 for his score to ESPN-aired documentary, "Hoosier Hoops: The Golden Era." His song "Tangled and Tempted" was featured in the motion picture "Going All The Way" starring Ben Affleck and Rachel Weisz. He composed and produced the longtime theme for the Emmy Award-winning weekly WFYI-20 series "Across Indiana". Tim received a 2011-2012 Creative Renewal Fellowship from the Arts Council of Indianapolis. He also is an occasional guest vocalist for the nationally-syndicated The Bob and Tom Show – but in the interest of propriety, we will not divulge the name of any of those selections here ;-) There have been two albums of Brickley/Rheins material released so far: "Be apart." (1995) and "Everything that ever was." (2005). Indianapolis Star music critic Dave Lindquist called "Everything" “...some of the best grown-up rock and roll of any era.", and says the opening track, "Reckless With Love", “...explodes as a modern descendant of Bruce Springsteen’s 'Rosalita' and Tom Petty’s 'American Girl'.” Mark Emge in Evansville, IN weekly "News 4 You" says, "Brickley and Rheins' songs, chronicling loss (as in love, identity, love, home and love) are perfectly complimented by Brickley's painstakingly-crafted soundtracks, all the more impressive as they reference - but don't rip off – masters like Lennon/McCartney, Bob Dylan and Paul Westerberg. " Through the years, Tim has shared bills with artists as diverse as The Beach Boys, Squeeze, Culture Club, Warren Zevon, Aimee Mann, Delbert McClinton and Medeski, Martin and Wood. Tim’s has been a long-time collaborator with noted Indianapolis theatrical producer/director Bryan Fonseca - from 1986-2018 at Fonseca’s Phoenix Theatre, and now at Fonseca’s new Fonseca Theatre Company. As composer, music director-producer, sound designer and/or performer, Tim has participated in over 100 productions with Fonseca, including groundbreaking regional debuts of Broadway musicals "Spring Awakening", "Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson" and "American Idiot". In 2009, he co-wrote musical "The Zippers Of Zoomerville" with Jack O'Hara. In 2010, he performed in and served as musical director for the Fonseca original production "Pure Prine: The Music Of John Prine". The Chicago Sun-Times called the 2011 Chicago production of "Prine" “...a "winning formula". In 2018, they successfully revived the long-dormant 1979 musical adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's" God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" and January 2019, saw the debut of new musical "The Ballad Of Klook and Vinette." Called “one of the crown jewels of the Indianapolis jazz” and "hip jazz vocal stylist" by Nuvo, he has performed jazz regularly with his Tim Brickley Quintet since 1990, singing standards, original material, and rearrangements of current pop. In 2001, he formed his 16-piece jazz Big Band, which has appeared at the nationally-recognized Indy Jazz Fest, where the band was praised by jazz critic Jay Harvey of the Star for ".....spirited and quirky resuscitation's of classic Nelson Riddle arrangements." The Quintet has regularly played Indianapolis jazz nightclub Valhalla The Chatterbox Tavern since 1988.