James Holdman is a composer, multi-instrumentalist performer, improviser and educator living in Minneapolis, MN. His compositions are influenced by world music, American popular music and post-tonal art music. He performs multiple genres of music on fretted stringed instruments and percussion. Holdman has taught at universities, community colleges, and other community settings.

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Please visit my blog, The Bosphorus Bystander, which documents many of the sounds and images I came across while studying Turkish music in Istanbul, Autumn, 2014.

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