Yasmin Williams

With a compositional style that's relaxing as well as inventive, acoustic fingerstyle guitarist Yasmin Williams specializes in lap tapping, a technique that involves playing the guitar with both hands over the fretboard as it rests face-up on the player's lap. Incorporating tapped harmonics, bowing, percussive strikes, alternative tunings, and even tap shoes into her sound, she landed on the Billboard Heatseekers chart with her debut album, 2018's Unwind. She expanded her instrumentation to include a harp guitar and African instruments such as kora and kalimba, and released her second album, Urban Driftwood, to widespread critical acclaim in 2021. Her latest album, Acadia, was released in October 2024 and received accolades from major publications such as Pitchfork, Stereogum, NPR, and Fader Magazine while also propelling Yasmin to perform another Tiny Desk Concert and be featured on the Colbert Show.