James Holdman is a composer, multi-instrumentalist performer and improviser 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 also taught at universities, colleges, and in 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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