Madame Mackintosh

Brooke “Madame” Mackintosh is a Utah-rooted, San Diego-forged singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, performer and creator of what she calls Mountain Soul—an organic blend of soul, folk, acoustic warmth and Western undertones shaped by a lifetime of storytelling through music.

Born and raised in Utah, Brooke’s mother claims she has been singing since the day she was born. Her father taught her piano as soon as she could reach the keys, guitar followed, and by fifteen she was writing songs of her own.

At 22, newly divorced and ready to begin again, Brooke packed everything she could fit into her car—including two guitars, her dog, her cat and her last $50—and followed I-15 south to San Diego. She adopted the stage name Brooklyn and immersed herself in the city’s thriving songwriter community.

Within a year, she was recording her debut album, Blue Skies Await, with producer Sven-Erik Seaholm. She soon became a familiar presence in the San Diego music scene, performing weekly residencies throughout Pacific Beach and the Gaslamp Quarter while producing and promoting live music of her own.

Her long-running Brooklyn & Friends series brought together local and touring artists and earned support from San Diego television, radio and music media. Her original song “Believe” was featured weekly during the closing credits of a local MyTV13 television program.

Brooke later joined Seaholm’s band, The Wild Truth, before the two formed the duo Seaholm Mackintosh. Their creative partnership ultimately produced Monarchs in 2011—the same year their son, Miles, was born. The album received a nomination for Best Pop Album at the San Diego Music Awards.

Their home studio, Kitsch & Sync Production, became another creative world entirely. Brooke contributed vocals, songwriting and soundscaping to numerous projects, including the musical-theater project Time & Away and the dance-lounge collaboration STLA, released in 2013.

Eventually, the mountains called her home.

Returning to Utah with her young son, Brooke found that the musical seeds she had planted years earlier were waiting for her. She established residencies and performances throughout Ogden, Salt Lake City and Park City and continued building a career on both sides of the stage—as songwriter, musician, host and live-show creator.

Her work earned nominations for Best Local Artist at the Indie Ogden Awards and Artist of the Year at the Josie Music Awards in Nashville.

In 2017 and 2018, Brooke also stepped into the filmmaking side of entertainment, working behind the scenes on Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone, including as a stand-in for Kelly Reilly.

Her music has taken her beyond the American West as well. In 2022, Brooke joined longtime friend and musical mentor Terence Hansen as Arcana Wild, touring the Netherlands with Dutch artist Jos Van Oost for his record release.

Through the years, Brooke has shared bills and stages with artists and songwriters including Jack Tempchin, Steve Poltz, Erin McCarley, Monty Powell, Maxwell Hughes, Gregory Page, Brad Carter and Sammy Brue, just to name a few. Her performances have ranged from intimate listening rooms and luxury resorts to festivals, raceways and large public events throughout the Western United States.

She has performed at venues and events including The Belly Up, Humphreys by the Bay, the San Diego County Fair, La Jolla Art & Wine Festival, Ogden Music Festival, Sundance Film Festival events, and Park City Songwriter showcases, along with established residencies throughout San Diego and Utah’s mountain communities.

And yet, for all the stages, albums and miles traveled, the heart of Brooke’s career has remained remarkably simple:

the song and the people in the room.

Known affectionately as a “human jukebox,” Madame Mackintosh moves easily between guitar, percussion, rich harmonies, audience requests and an extensive repertoire spanning generations and genres. But original music remains at the center of it all. Her catalog now includes more than 70 original songs and three released albums, with new music and writing continually underway.

Today, Madame Mackintosh brings all of those chapters together—the songwriter, the storyteller, the musician, the mother, the producer, the traveler and the woman who has spent nearly two decades making a life from the thing she began doing before she can even remember:

singing.

She calls the sound Mountain Soul.

And she’s still following it wherever it leads.