One way to understand how the guitar playing of Yasmin Williams feels alternately intimate ... you have a life to live. And it’s worth living.” It was a hard time for Williams, externally ...

Hey y'all, I'm Yasmin Williams, a guitarist from Northern Virginia ... on air when Weekend Edition shares entrants' stories, at live shows this summer or right here on All Things Considered ...

Yasmin Williams is a fingerstyle guitarist who taps, slaps and slides up and down the fretboard of her instrument with a commanding sense of scenery that flickers between the strings. Storytellers ...

In 2018, when I entered the Contest for the first time, I never really thought about winning. I knew that there were literally thousands of other folks submitting their best material and I just ...

It’s a chilly September night in Nashville and Yasmin Williams is sitting alone on stage at 6th & Peabody – an outdoor venue attached to a touristy moonshine bar and a gourmet hot dog stand.

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 ...

Hey y'all, I'm Yasmin Williams, a guitarist from Northern Virginia and a two-time Contest "loser." It's funny to be writing this now, on the heels of what is now my second official Tiny Desk concert.

Northern Virginia guitarist Yasmin Williams shares how the Tiny Desk Contest changed her life — despite entering it twice and never winning. Hey y'all, I'm Yasmin Williams, a guitarist from ...