Tim Brickley is an Indianapolis, IN-based composer-producer-performer who the Indianapolis Star describes as a musical "local legend." He is a singer, multi-instrumentalist, and recording studio owner/engineer whose multi-faceted career includes: composing and producing music for film, broadcast and theatre at his Hit City Recording; releasing and performing his own music (written with David Rheins) with rock band The Bleeding Hearts; singing jazz with his Quintet and 15-piece Big Band, and leading the in-demand Happy Millionaires party band (often teamed with the Quintet or Big Band) for corporate and social events.

He won an Emmy Award in 1998 for his score to the internationally-aired public television documentary, Hoosier Hoops: The Golden Era. His song Tangled and Tempted was featured in the Polygram Films release Going All The Way starring Ben Affleck and Rachel Weisz. He  composed and produced the theme for the Emmy Award-winning weekly WFYI-20 series Across Indiana and is an Addy Award-winning composer of music for television and radio commercials. Since 1986, he has also been principal composer/musical director for the Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis, including productions of The Three Penny Opera and Bat Boy: The Musical. In 2008, Tim co-wrote the original musical The Zippers Of Zoomerville with Jack O'Hara, which premeired at the Phoenix and will be produced again there in May, 2011. In 2010, he performed in and served as musical director for the Phoenix original production Pure Prine: The Music Of John Prine, which is continuing with an original cast road show as we speak...

Rock critic Dave Lindquist of the Star calls Tim's 2005 release with the Bleeding Hearts, Everything that ever was..."some of the best grown-up rock and roll of any era." and says the single Reckless With Love....”explodes as a modern descendant of Bruce Springsteen’s Rosalita and Tom Petty’s American Girl.” He's performed onstage with artists as diverse as The Beach Boys, Delbert McClinton, Warren Zevon, Squeeze, Aimee Mann and Medeski, Martin and Wood. He has produced and engineered critically-acclaimed recordings by Louisville's danny flanigan and the Rain Chorus and Detroit's Rosetta Pebble at Hit City, where he also hosts his Different Beat Radio show/podcast, featuring "new music from the Wilds Of Indiana"...

Called "one of the crown jewels of Indianapolis jazz" and a "hip jazz vocal stylist" by Nuvo Magazine, he has performed regularly with his Quintet since 1990. Singing standards, original material, and imaginative re-arrangements of current pop, they are a top nightclub and event attraction. In 2001, he formed his 15-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 their "spirited and quirky resusscitations of classic Nelson Riddle arrangements."

Often in combination with either the Quintet or Big Band, his Happy Millionaires party band is a ten-piece, "old-school-with-a-horn-section" rock and R+B band that regularly performs at charitable, corporate and social events throughout the Midwest. The band is currently enjoying the audience participation "Shout Out The Number" 223-Song Playlist, which let's listeners build the band's sets - and can make for one heck of a party...