Career
He shared stages at various times with Mary Bergin, Lunasa, Michael McGoldrick, Sean Ryan, Gerry O"Connor, Steve Cooney, Seamus Tansey and more. Phillips taught and toured widely across Europe, the United States and even as far afield as Timbuktu in the Sahara in 2006, bringing the drum to ever wider audiences. He was an experienced teacher and Comhaltas adjudicator and taught at many of the main summer schools in Ireland.
Phillips died suddenly on 16 September 2007.
Phillips was a proponent of the top-end style of bodhran playing and recognised in his field as an innovator. Comhaltas bodhrán and drumming adjudicator.
