Yasmin Williams

Meet one of the fastest-rising stars in fingerstyle guitar & one of the country’s most imaginative young solo guitarists.

Yasmin Williams is an acoustic fingerstyle guitarist with an unorthodox, modern style of playing. She utilizes various techniques including alternate tunings, percussive hits, and lap tapping in her music to great effect. Her “radiant sound and adventitious origins have made her a key figure in a diverse dawn for the solo guitar” (The New York Times).

"Performing in a distinctive, inventive finger-style, and using only a looping pedal, Williams creates textured, harmonious soundscapes almost entirely by herself" - Rolling Stone

“Yasmin Williams is a guitarist and composer embedded in the roots between folk, jazz, and fantasy—a meditative virtuoso who fingerpicks benign worlds into existence. For all its harmonic intricacy, her fretwork on Acadia leaves room to consider what emotional curveball or narrative twist might have led to this modal lurch, or that deviation from the folk equilibrium.” — Pitchfork