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With 38 years in the music industry and 28 years in Australia, this American emigre runs several businesses in Sydney with heavy online presences in entertainment and pets. He also a fan of Hawaiian music andhas visited the Islands cose to 50 times in the past 35 years.
After ten years of production/tour management and festival production in the US plus teaching music business in Atlanta, Phil emigrated to Sydney in 1981 where he ran Australia's largest record retailer, Palings, for openers. Pursuing a love of media, he became a leading music trade writer and investigative journalist with credits in over 100 major domestic and international magazines or newspapers. These included trades such as Billboard, Hollywood Report, Variety, Music Business, National Times, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Rolling Stone and many more. He is still a major travel writer with articles (and his Poke recipe) at www.philtripp.com.
After four years of writing, he created IMMEDIA! Public Relations to service artist and corporate clients - especially in their needs or strategies to penetrate overseas markets. He is an export expert having served as an adviser to AUSTRADE in the 1980s and 90s and has represented music industry trade fairs such as MIDEM for a decade, New Music Seminar for five years and currently South by Southwest Music, FIlm, and Interactive Festivals and Conferences in Austin, Texas for the past seven. In 2009, SxSW had five major artists and 20 delegates from Hawaii. And 2010 looks to be even bigger for Hawaii.
As part of the SxSW exercise this year, IMMEDIA! created an online, free, Hawaii Music Industry Directory (www.immedia.com.au/hawaii) - modeled on their AustralAsian Music Industry Directory (www.immedia.com.au/amid) - and turned over to HARA and DBEDT as a resource.
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