June 2022 Europe Tour

I’m super excited to announce my upcoming June 2022 Europe Tour! I’ll be playing in several festivals including Glastonbury Festival, Best Kept Secret, Primavera Sounds, Elbjazz, Roskilde Festival, and Black Deer Festival, along with headline shows in Berlin, Paris, and London and co-headline shows in the UK with the great guitarist Gwenifer Raymond! Get tickets here or by clicking the “TOUR” tab on my website!

Mini East Coast Tour

Thanks to everyone who came out to my shows in Richmond, VA at the Tin Pan, Wayne, PA at 118 North, and Roanoke, VA and the Jefferson Center! Special hout out to Roanoke for SELLING OUT the Jefferson Center! All of these shows were such a great time and so fun!

Touring with Mike Dawes

I just finished a tour along the east coast with Mike Dawes and had a great time! Thanks to everyone who came out to the shows!

Urban Driftwood 2021 Year End Lists

Urban Driftwood has been named one of the best albums of the year in numerous year end lists, including Pitchfork, NPR, the Guardian, the Washington Post and more! I’m super honored at all the support this album has gotten throughout the year and am so excited to see it on so many year end lists! Here are some of the major publications to include Urban Driftwood on their best of 2021 lists:

How Black women reclaimed country and Americana music in 2021

How Black women reclaimed country and Americana music in 2021

“The folk lane that Yasmin Williams occupies—solo acoustic guitar—is often overlooked in accounts of sexism and racism in roots music, but it too has been dominated by white men for the last half-century. With the compositions on her January album Urban Driftwood, and the ways she performed and talked about them, Williams breezily intervened in those narrow notions of musical lineage.”

Yasmin Williams Crafts Otherworldly Acoustic Soundscapes on ‘Urban Driftwood’

Yasmin Williams Crafts Otherworldly Acoustic Soundscapes on ‘Urban Driftwood’

“Some people need to sit down with an instructor and be forced to learn the fundamentals,” says Williams. “For other people, like me, exploration starts right at the beginning. Otherwise, why bother playing?”


Yasmin Williams, a new kind of guitar hero, is listening to the world around her

Yasmin Williams, a new kind of guitar hero, is listening to the world around her

“That was the real magic trick right there. No matter how nonchalantly she tried to demystify her inventive techniques, there was no getting around the big mystery of music itself — how it can form inside a specific feeling or place only to communicate something totally different someplace else.”

Virga - An Amazon Music Original

Virga - An Amazon Music Original

“Harp guitar in hand, Williams simply puts on a fingerpicking masterclass, creating a driving rhythm that doesn't let up for a second (even, remarkably, while she transitions from playing upright to laying the guitar on her lap – twice!) and a luscious, varied landscape of crystalline harmonics, beautifully melodic figures and booming bass notes from the harp guitar's top neck.” - Guitar World Magazine