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Kathy Brier (born March 10, 1975, on Staten Island in New York) is an American actress. Brier played the role of Marcie Walsh McBain on ABC soap opera One Life to Live from October 18, 2002 until June 17, 2009. In 2004 her performance earned her a nomination for a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series." From 2003 to 2004, Brier played the starring role of Tracy Turnblad in the Broadway production of Hairspray, having previously been the understudy. Brier began acting in the theatre, with regional credits that include Fanny Brice in Funny Girl,...

Tom Brier is an American ragtime pianist and composer. The hallmark of Brier's piano-playing style is an aggressive left hand that attacks the lower half of the piano keyboard in staccato, machine-gun-like octave passages. He alternates these voicings with a variety of other sounds: walking bass ("boogie"), single-note figures, and widely-spaced chords -- often both arpeggiated and unarpeggiated tenths. Born in Oakdale, California in 1971, Tom Brier was exposed to ragtime in his earliest years when his parents purchased a player piano. He was all of four years old at the time. Soon, he was picking out on the piano...

There are at least 2 musical groups by this name: one is a traditional Irish folk group and the other is Japanese hip-hop. .

Marc Brierley was part of the British contemporary folk scene from 1966 to 1973. He was a contemporary (and friend) of guitarists Bert Jansch and John Renbourn, amongst others. He recorded his first e.p. in 1966 on Transatlantic Records, which featured him solely on guitar and vocals- playing a style reminiscent of Bert Jansch. Notable tracks on the e.p. are 'Time for Love' a song later covered by Eclection (an early band featuring Trevor Lucas - who was later to form Fotheringay with Sandy Denny, and then join Fairpoint Convention). 'Time for Love' was also featured on Transatlantic's 'The Best...