Message Stick – Scotty Martin, Rodeo Boy, Don’t Say Sorry (2005)

Television program

Length: 26 minutes 49 seconds

Taken from the magazine program Message Stick

Synopsis

A story about songman Scotty Martin, who inherited the role of composer of songs. This episode also features rodeo boy Bowman Button, a four-year-old cowboy, and a short film titled Don’t Say Sorry.

Curator’s notes

Scotty Martin is a songman, whose compositions come to him through his dreams. Songmen in Indigenous culture are very powerful figures, and the song is a repository of knowledge passed from generation to generation.

Presented by Rachel Maza, this is episode 9 in series 7 of Message Stick.

Original aspect ratio: 16 x 9 (TV)

Production company ABC TV Indigenous Programs Unit
Executive producer David Jowsey

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