Hi everyone it's Mark Stinson you found the podcast unlocking your world of

creativity and I put a little underscore on that word unlocking because the

real idea of this podcast is to say you've come up with ideas, you've got a

burning passion to get your creative work published, produced, recorded, but you need the

inspiration and the connections to get it out in the world.

And that's the kind of information we want to provide.

I'm just so pleased today to have as my guest, Dan Phippin.

Dan is a music industry and a live event production production professional just decades in the industry.

It's been a while.

It's been a while.

So Dan, really glad to have you on the program.

I'm happy to be here, Mark.

I look forward to it and I think this is going to be a great exchange of ideas today, so

excited to be on your program.

Unlocking your world of creativity with Mark Stinson.

I love the idea that Dan Phippin has seen the various facets of this business.

From the actual singer-songwriter talent to repping and producing the artist themselves and

then obviously the industry side of producing the events and getting the live venue set up.

Dan, you were just involved in the Farm Aid 2020, well I guess I should say

virtual concert, virtual event. There's a 2020 virtual event this year and the way I would like to kind of put it on is this was the 35th year of farm aid and

Willie Nelson started it and right away John Mellencamp and Neil Young and then Dave Matthews came on and all of them are chairman of the boards right now.

But Willie started it.

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