Woah, thanks so much for watching everyone!!! 🤟🏾

@bagsofenergy

2 жыл бұрын

Thank-you from France where I am Pete in Brittany and I wish to give you my Lyrics, O.K. !

@bagsofenergy

2 жыл бұрын

I am in France and I really would like to get to know you .

@hendrosetyow3072

2 жыл бұрын

Wow… amazing performance. I’m so glad I clicked on this. You are brilliant, amazing, inspiring, mesmerising, just beyond awesome!

@fabkebab

2 жыл бұрын

Your music is lovely!

@scalesofjustice1059

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your genius and magnificent music Yasmin! Might i ask where your remarkable outfit is from? Does that pattern have a name? Please and thank you! X

I came here after reading Williams' column on Cowboy Carter in the Guardian today (April 2. 2024). Insightful and thought-provoking column. I was stunned by her music! I would so much like to see her perform live sometime.

Hi Yasmin! I'm a classical trained guitarist playing for about 48 years now. I never heard something like that. Love your music, it's so wonderful.

@splijter

2 жыл бұрын

Try kaki king, her debut album is amazing

I can only imagine that Yasmin put in 1000s and 1000s of hour to create such intricate beauty. A world class musician.

It's funny, she started playing guitar 12 years ago because she was inspired by the Guitar Hero game, and now she's one of my real life guitar heroes!

@ThePinkpainter

2 жыл бұрын

Here,s the bright part of video games. Good for Williams!

@theesweetscience2084

2 жыл бұрын

The crazy part is that real guitarists have a hard ('ish) time with guitar hero because it doesn't actually follow notes, riffs, swells, structure... It's just a prolonged rhythm and beat with pace changes. Probably would suit drummers better! If anyone . So it's crazy to hear this. Pretty dope !

@OnRoadsLessTraveled

2 жыл бұрын

@@theesweetscience2084 Everything about this presentation... Yasmin herself especially but also her music, her skill, her guitar... is real. This world is crying out for "realness". What a breath of fresh air.

@stevescuba1978

2 жыл бұрын

@@theesweetscience2084 I didn't play guitar back then, but a friend of mine kept losing at guitar hero, then just sat behind everyone playing the same songs on his guitar. That made me want to learn, and I bought a guitar shortly after.

@stevenchurney2416

2 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful backstory

Found my new favorite homework background music

@Coopogers

Ай бұрын

You are so funny!! 😆 but soooo right! She’s a full performance, i couldn’t stop watching

I’ve seen a lot in 67 years ….. but, WOW 🤩 Music is just exploding out of Yasmin❤️‍🔥

00:00 Juvenescence 04:57 On a Friday night 10:50 Through the woods 17:10 After the storm

THIS IS MESMERISING......feels like I'm travelling through country lanes, rooftop open, breeze on the face, sun shining, perfection :)

@Halonablack

2 жыл бұрын

It does! I want to make this my meditation music. Kind of not the usual meditation music, but I love the nature visuals it creates in my head.

@creationb1065

2 жыл бұрын

@@Halonablack sweet, I know what you mean....when I compose I see images, colours, emotions....and it just carries me along :) really enjoyed your vibe :)

@marywilson6354

2 жыл бұрын

Yes with tree as a canopy over head . ❤️❤️

@mavincapital6971

2 жыл бұрын

EXACTLY!!!!

Everything she does is gorgeous, its like she has rainbows in her fingers!

@axolotldaydreams

2 жыл бұрын

♡♡♡♡ wowwww

@shawnwilliams9202

2 жыл бұрын

Yes!!!

@jessicaasch1635

2 жыл бұрын

She does!

@HeleneLogan

2 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful way to put it!

@51tomtomtom

2 жыл бұрын

Rainbows in her fingers ; exactly !!!!!!!

very impressive performance. as a guitar player of nearly 40 years, one of the things I've really come to appreciate is how every guitar player has something original about their playing. we all bring something unique to this instrument. hard to believe considering the amount of guitar players throughout history. thanks NPR.

From the tip of Africa, Cape Town, Thank you Tiny Desk for supporting and sharing music and love.

The way she plays the guitar is so entrancing. It's so beautiful. What a performance

@jimikazak

2 жыл бұрын

Took the words out of my mouth..

@user-hr4us85

2 жыл бұрын

Hello 👋👋👋

@user-hr4us85

2 жыл бұрын

Love ❤️❤️❤️💞😍

@edmcguigan3501

2 жыл бұрын

She doesn't overplay like most of the male solo guitarists using these kinds of techniques. Technique only in service of the music, never just to show off.

@urmumsbaps

2 жыл бұрын

@@edmcguigan3501 dude shut up, bringing gender into it makes it clear you watched this video and couldn't see past the fact she's a woman.

Thank You NPR Tiny Desk for bringing so many great artist to our attention, and to the sound engineers, you are amazing for allowing us to hear them effortlessly in all their wonderfulness. New favorite artist

@user-hr4us85

2 жыл бұрын

Love ❤️❤️❤️😍❤️❤️

@blackpoh2822

2 жыл бұрын

beautiful people

Her music is as colorful as the way she dresses... A beautiful rainbow 🌈

@Coopogers

Ай бұрын

She reminds me of me picking up the guitar…the third song doings like the boy in the movie August Rush and was the reason i decided to pick up the guitar and now banjo 🪕

You can tell she put alot of thought and time into her pieces. Absolutely Beautiful. Harp from a Guitar

@staninjapan07

2 жыл бұрын

Well said. Harp from a guitar. I could not have put it better.

@barbfox3692

2 жыл бұрын

See you in Florida!

I was in my bed all depressed and without think too much, put this and my mood changed for the better.

@iamcoolie

2 жыл бұрын

What a blessing. I pray all is well with you!🥰

@mannygotdahits6534

2 жыл бұрын

Amen

@kevinCaseMusic

2 жыл бұрын

Funny, bc it made me cry. Not sad tears, just a flood of emotion. I agree, this music is profoundly healing. What a blessing of talent - emerged from playing Rock Band!!

YES. Dude she's so good. I bought a couple Cd's of her first album and gave them to some friends and now she has a full blown groupie fan base out in the hills of northern california lol. Can't wait to see her live sometime.

I've been playing dobro for fifty years. You knock my socks off with your music. Thank you.

Yasmin. You make everything bad disappear. I cry with such happiness that you are here with us. You are a gift, that gives more than what we deserve. I am in tears writing this. I venture all genres, Tool, Underworld, Billy Holiday, Leadbelly, Norah Jones, Gotan Project, Fela Kuti...I am so happy to add you to my life. Thank you.

As someone who is currently learning guitar, it's refreshing to see someone like her playing that beautiful acoustic.

What a virtuosa! Her strumming is right up there with Tracy Chapman and Joan Armatrading. And all thanks to Guitar Hero...

Up this pops on my feed, and I am so unexpectedly moved, it's like I just heard birdsong for the first time. I never comment but I had to this time.

She sounds like two guitar players harmonizing with each other, she is an orchestra 💖💖💖

We in Virginia who first put her onstage in small venues here just a few years ago are so happy to see that the world is catching on. Yaz is magic! For one thing, she is opening for Tommy Emmanuel in many places, and they will both be on the next Cayamo music cruise.

@daveburnham9111

2 жыл бұрын

Good work Ron

@annabrac

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, lucky people are those who will be able to attend that happening! Regards from Croatia 🌻

@seanchinnery

2 жыл бұрын

That’s great. This is the first time I’ve heard Yasmin Williams play and the first thing I thought was has Tommy Emmanuel heard her yet!

@mimroses965

2 жыл бұрын

YESSS!!!! She reminds me of Tommy and John Butler. Stunning.

@timgilbreth1830

2 жыл бұрын

Her and Tommy Emmanuel? Incredible!

Woke up this morning for a jog and got home for coffee and found this! The suns not up yet and it’s pretty perfect

@kcmark3

2 жыл бұрын

😁

@gherairiflorent3216

2 жыл бұрын

peeeerfect

@sneakvibingmedia

2 жыл бұрын

TALK ABOUT A MOOD!!!

I love her!!💜 I play the dulcimer, ukelele and guitar this way because of neck and wrist issues. She is an inspiration!

Wow! Yasmin is what the guitar community needs... An original artist that has beautiful original songs to share! Thank you!!!

This is amazing. I had no idea you could play the guitar in this way. She's got such a unique style and her music is really calming too.

@tiwantiwaabibiman2603

2 жыл бұрын

Yes musicians in Afrika have been playing western guitars like this decades. It's taking the techniques/rhythms of the Kora and turning it horizontally.

Just so beautiful :) we first heard her when she opened for Watchouse at the Ryman. She was amazing and we got to meet her afterwards. She signed our son and daughters shoes :) Our son told her that her final song was so beautiful that he had to close his eyes and was covered in chills and she just smiled and fist bumped him. She was so kind and humble :) awesome to hear her here :)

@JarodJesus

2 жыл бұрын

That's so beautiful :''')

@MsErika1226

2 жыл бұрын

@@JarodJesus thank you so much :) it was a wonderful night :)

@Coopogers

Ай бұрын

That is the most beautiful, honest and pure comment an artist could ever receive and from a child no less 🥹 Such a beautiful child to be able to appreciate artistry like that. Kudos momma and pops! 🙌🏾 💕

@MsErika1226

Ай бұрын

@@Coopogers that is so sweet and so true :) he is a very special young man and so thankful he can appreciate this beauty so fully :) so thankful you commented this because it is so sweet and also because it reminded me of that special night with our kids :)

Big thanks to NPR for the production. The multiple cameras, camera angles, lighting and excellent sound recording quality make this a First Rate result in showing off Ms. Williams' music and musicianship. None of her delicacy was lost in these songs...

My best days are the days I discover new artists that I know will be in heavy rotation on my playlists! Thank you for your music Yasmin!

I just wanna be driving the beach coast in summertime listening to this amazing guitarist

I know I'm laying in bed deliriously with food poisoning, but I think this is one of the most pleasant things I have ever heard.

@barbaraheed3509

2 жыл бұрын

I couldn't have said that any better for sure. She is wonderfully. ✌

@theTrend7

2 жыл бұрын

Ugh, been there done that. Hope you feel better soon.

@honeybuzzard2843

2 жыл бұрын

Yes..this is a Gift for you Feel Better

@blackswanmtg

2 жыл бұрын

Get better soon dude.

@user-hr4us85

2 жыл бұрын

Love 💖😍💗💗

I listen to and watch India Arie who is one of my favorite songstress. She mentioned that Yasmin Williams is her favorite instrumentalists and that she is an unique talent a "prodigy". She said to watch Yasmin on NPR Tiny Desk. I must agree with her Yasmin is incredibly talented and unique. Her music is soothing. I love her style of playing the guitar and use of other sounds and instruments.

I studied in London and come from mexico ! I know what it is to feel lonely and homesick ! The Forest is so beautiful 😻 congrats 🎉 congratulations to all of you Tiny Desk people

Didn't realize you could just lay the guitar on your lap and play it like a piano (if, IF, you knew what you were doing 😮, like Ms. Williams). Enthralling, enchanting, and entrancing are words that fail to capture the magic and beauty of this performance. Thank you!

@OfficialMyxomatosis

2 жыл бұрын

That is when guitar opened for me. My years of piano as a child hit me and I saw 6 pianos and two hands. I was 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯. My teacher hated me playing with my guitar on my lap, but suddenly... He was 🤯. I no longer have a guitar :( However, I will always play the same way she does.

@amandafeliciano542

2 жыл бұрын

@@OfficialMyxomatosis get you a new one!! ;)

She's so talented, I admire her ability to play using her own creative picking style.

This is some next level creativity. She's incredible

Absolutely beautiful. Thank you Yasmin for sharing your gift with us. ❤ Lying in bed on a Saturday morning listening to this has opened my heart to more love, grace and compassion. Namaste

All the songs were wonderful, but After the Storm was MAJESTIC. I listened to it in a morning (I am not a morning person), felt the chill wind with the warm sunshine, along with the song gave me a sense of hope that everything is going to be alright. Suffice to say I am now a big fan.

She sounds amazing. Props to those fingers gliding across heavy gauge strings and making them sing

@GjaP_242

2 жыл бұрын

15:43

I have no idea how/why this showed up today but I am so happy that it did! Her music has the ability to sound new and known at the same time. A long time ago (mid ‘80s) I saw Steve Morse play an all acoustic set (he opened for Eric Johnson) - her playing reminds me of that night.

This feels so good to my soul. I'm glad I found her work!!! Incredible

So unbelievably beautiful.

@user-hr4us85

2 жыл бұрын

Love ❤️❤️💖😍💗💖💖😍💖💖💖

Just wow, i havent seen anything as beautiful as this played on a guitar. I think i just found my favourite guitarist 😅

My God, what an artist. I am so enchanted by her performance ❤️

you can see the way that yasmin williams enjoys what she is doing. She is also incredibly rhythmically skilled, and a great composer!

She deserves an endorsement from every company whose instruments/tools were used in this video! Come on companies... Step up!

@user-hr4us85

2 жыл бұрын

Love ❤️❤️💕😻❣️❣️💕💕💕💕💕💕

@davidespinosa1910

2 жыл бұрын

The artist endorses the company, not vice-versa.

@nuthinbutlove

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidespinosa1910 I understand that. I've endorsed many for 30+ years, but the companies need to woo her just as they did me... And yes, they're called artist endorsements. 😒

@rogerh4815

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidespinosa1910 Your right, she should receive sponsorships from the company's who's instruments she's using. D M, many of us understood your well intended recommendations

@AmericanBarber82

2 жыл бұрын

Nah

What planet did this music come from? Fascinating, enthralling, stunning!

She's like Betty Van Halen,Shreddie Better and Jasmin Hendrix all rolled up and even better. These are truly the best of times. I welcome Ms. Williams into my life's music rotation. She's a badass

Your artistry is a revelation! Thank you for creating your beautiful music.

Observation: The best guitar player yet. With a hammer and Tap shoes.. She has talent and it shows.

You have a great style that fills the air with goodness. The Most High has truly gifted you in this art form. 💜 Thank you

What a gift! Our Creator didn't make any junk, that includes all 7+ billion of us. This child was given the gift of music, others excell in different areas. We're made in His image...

This is amazing artistry, i hear classic country music, music from Mali, deep Blues, Baroque classical music, and of course her very own style. This is Rich and full of soo many beautiful sounds. Thank you for posting, so glad i stopped what i was doing and clicked on it.

Wow such artistry and musicianship. 13 years of dedication 👏 what a beautiful radiant soul.

This brilliant musician gives me hope for the future.

@carlosgaspar8447

2 жыл бұрын

check out reggie of "guitaroo 5000". also self taught and brings smiles to people all over the world.

@evelyneskin1

2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful music, beautiful woman! thanks for sharing.

I had the absolute pleasure of seeing Yasmin Williams live yesterday, and I am so glad I found this video because I can continue to listen to her play at any time. She is truly an inspiration to just create music in ways that make you happy :)

Yasmin, I’m 67 , and playing guitar from age 10. My sis and I learned finger pickin’ from ‘the’Elizabeth Cotton, techniques. You have all the finest qualities, of the best , I, have heard in life. Next go a west africa, and find the kora. You are divine🇲🇱

Yasmin, thank you for sharing your playing with us, it's all so wonderful!

This is a very beautiful and talented Woman who not only is amazing but truly is gifted, I wouldn't mind hearing Her in a live performance. Continue to be Blessed in your journey Queen 👑🎵🎹🎼🎼♥🔥

YAZ!!! You are amazing!!!!! A musical super hero Please don’t change

I am in complete awe of Ms. Williams’ musical genius. Total.AWE!!!

One of the best artists to come out of Northern Virginia. So soothing

@Kevin6059

2 жыл бұрын

Have to wonder if Danny Gatton was an inspiration coming from that neck of the woods. Not sure she's old enough to know about him though.

@jdst7080

2 жыл бұрын

Don't be so racist

Amazing musician. Beautifully composed music played with a heart and soul that shines bright. Exactly what this world needs. Thank you Yasmin Williams.

I was fortunate to see Yasmin in concert the other evening in Cincinnati at the Ludlow Garage. She's an amazing artist and I'm so glad to know of her. All the best in your music!

Michael Hedges once said (or said at least once) that if you are a guitar player and want to reach a certain note or make a certain sound, you have to find a way to do it. Yasmin has done it in so many unique ways!

So beautiful ❤ Sounds like a warm sunny morning, sounds like joy and innocence. Blessings to you Yasmin and thank you for sharing such beauty with us ❤❤❤

Haven't cried from the sheer beauty of a melody in a long time, but the first song here did it. Amazing work Yasmin.

@womanofacertainage5892

2 жыл бұрын

SAME. I'm only on song 2 and am in tears. We need more of this in the world.

I saw Yasmin last night at Black Girs Rock. Where I was positioned, I was unable to see her but I didn't have to. She was mesmerizing. I am a forever fan. However seeing her, her technique and tricks have amazed me. I am so glad India planted this seed in my spirit.

I know I likely commented earlier, but here I am 2 years later coming back to this video. Stunningly beautiful!

Yasmin Williams, you are such an amazing versatile guitarist, a great delight and honor to have discovered you just now and to be able to cherish your awesome music ... so versatile you are that I even expected you to open your mouth and sing for us too sooner or later ;-) ... blessings from Germany, Pat

What a beautiful wash ofsound with that layering of guitars in the last tune.

Now I understand why young girls fall in love with rock stars. When done right, you can see inside their soul. You're a rock star to me.

Experimentation. Expression. Diligence. Art. All I’ve to give back is gratitude.

What a blessing! As someone who comes from a family of women who play stringed instruments, this is like chicken soup for the soul! So Beaituiful!

A piece of heaven. Thank you.

So much talent wrapped into one human being! Wow. Just wow! ❤️❤️❤️

Just when I think I understand what she's doing, she throws in some little tweak or unexpected melodic turn that I didn't see coming. Some of the loveliest guitar I've heard in a while!

So so good. What a talent.

Saw Yasmin Williams at NFF this past summer and was blown away. So great to see her Tiny Desk!

'Beyond the beyond' ... Yasmin Williams's music sounds like how I want the world to be.

♥ The time has come that all the wounderful black people like you show their light and shine bright - Yasmin, thank you for inspiration!!! ♥

This was a very pleasant surprise today. Her album is so gorgeous and so is this performance.

Everything about Yasmin and her music is just beautiful.

Technique...masterful. Sounds...beautiful. Songs...enlightening.

The grace and majesty of her finger picking style is sublime.

I think Yasmin is only the second person Ive ever seen play in this style. And her use of different tools like the small hammer was very cool. Her sound is hers and its beautiful.

@drvanon

2 жыл бұрын

I find it to be very refreshing

@jackfin212

2 жыл бұрын

Who's the other person? John Butler is who I can think of, who is also bet anything was a massive inspiration to Yasmin here. Guaranteed she has probably logged hundreds of views of John butler's Ocean. I know I have lol.

@carlospintos8898

2 жыл бұрын

Nahuel Pennisi from Argentina is another who play the guitar in this particular way

@carlospintos8898

2 жыл бұрын

He sing too

@DJBuglip

2 жыл бұрын

Michael Hedges. He developed the harp guitar she's playing on the last song.

I'm very glad that you are excited to play for us, Yasmin. The first song had me hooked. You have gentle and strong talent with great timing! Thank you, Yasmin!

12 years of practice and already two wonderful albums. It is simply dazzling.

You, Yasmin Williams, make hauntingly beautiful music playing a guitar in ways I’ve never seen before. You are a stunningly talented artist that the world needs to know. You’re totally unique. Keep growing and performing. You deserve mountains of success.

Ridiculous....talent and genuine at heart...... Just simply beautiful!!!

Absolutely stunning. Truly amazing. I hope I never meet any of the 130 psychopaths who disliked this video.

I'm here because India Arie bragged about you! ❤🖤💚 You are definitely GIFTED!!! This is my third time watching this. I did it with my eyes closed today. Many blessings and much success to you Yasmin.

Pure,beuful and absolute musical being,all her genes 🧬 are inherent,rhythmic and harmoniously wired to float tunes gentle to ears that do hear❤️🙏🏿💫namaste

It’s called skills! The woman is greatly talented

Yasmin, I bet you even amaze yourself. Just genius! Bravo!

12 years and just Wow!!

this girl radiates cool vibes. About the show and the business. Also REALLY well shot for a home concert.... props to the remote video production team putting these home concerts together.