Yasmin Williams

Follow this transfixing artist where her gifts take her and you'll find yourself on an unforgettable journey. An innovative guitarist and composer first inspired as a child by the Guitar Hero II video game; she has blown through genre barriers (and blown away critics) with her unique compositional approach and expansive instrumental style. Beyond traditional fingerpicked guitar, her mastery of multiple instruments including kora, harp guitar, banjo, and electric guitar, lend endlessly unique variations to her one-a-kind sound, inviting collaborations with such noted musicians as folk/roots singer-songwriter Aoife O'Donovan and jazz innovator Immanuel Wilkins. Ethereal, floating melodies emerge from this artist's brilliant mind and technical prowess—a sun-dappled trail you'll want to follow to its beguiling end.