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songman

(ˈsɒŋmən)
n, pl -men
(Music, other) a man who sings
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War Horse narrator and songman Bob Fox will be in concert this month.
Aaron Henderson and Darren Blake wafted smoke from a bucket of burning Paper Bark and Blue Gum leaves towards him, while songman Fred Bulanyu Leone called out to their ancestors and tapped out a rhythm with a pair of bar gan - "killer boomerangs" - traditionally used for hunting.
Hotz, and Songman Kang, "Modeling College Major Choices Using Elicited Measures of Expectations and Counterfactuals," Journal of Econometrics 166, no.
This paper considers experiences and outcomes of repatriation in the northern Kimberley, drawing on an ongoing dialogue between Treloyn and Matthew Dembal Martin, a leading Ngarinyin and Wunambal elder and songman and son of the famous composer Scotty Nyalgodi Martin (deceased), with whom Treloyn has conducted research on the public Junba dance-song tradition since 1999.
AFTER two sell-out UK tours in 2011 and 2013, The Pitmen Poets' planned world tour was put on hold when Bob Fox was offered a starring role as The Songman in the West End production of Warhorse.
The Pitmen Poets features ex-Lindisfarne and Jack The Lad singer and writer Billy Mitchell, songman from London's West End musical Warhorse, Bob Fox, leading exponent of Tyneside song Benny Graham and BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards nominee songwriter Jez Lowe.
The tracks are "Down On My Knees", "The Killer", "Why Me Lord", "Songman", "Fifteen Rounds With Jose Cuervo", "The Next One", "100% Chance of Pain", "It's A Man Thing", "Wine To Remember Whiskey To Forget", "Dead Girl Walking", "In Texas", "Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?", "I'm Not Going Anywhere", and "If You Knew".
He went on to study for a Certifi-cate in Education at London University and then a BPhil in composition at York University, and was also a songman at York Minster.