Guitarist and composer Yasmin Williams, who continues her US headlining tour in Colorado this weekend, has announced a two-week tour of Europe in June. The tour kicks off with a set at the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona on June 6, with shows in Paris, Utrecht, The Hague, London, Leeds, and Bristol, culminating in Copenhagen. on June 19.
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Guitarist and composer Yasmin Williams, who continues her US headlining tour in Colorado this weekend, has announced a two-week tour of Europe in June. The tour kicks off with a set at the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona on June 6, with shows in Paris, Utrecht, The Hague, London, Leeds, and Bristol, culminating in Copenhagen. on June 19. Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 21. See below for details and tickets or visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.
Williams's Nonesuch debut album, Acadia, was released to critical acclaim in October. Her most sonically expansive work to date, Acadia is nine original, mostly instrumental tracks written and produced by Williams, and features her on various guitars, banjo, calabash drum, tap shoes, and kora. She is joined by an eclectic cast of collaborators—including Immanuel Wilkins, Dom Flemons, Aoife O’Donovan, William Tyler, Darlingside, and others—creating a folk music that reflects the wide range of musical influences that have inspired her throughout her life. You can get it and hear it here.
"Williams is now making some of the most purely beautiful guitar music anywhere," exclaims the Guardian. Mojo, in its four-star review, says: "Forgoing cynicism, she looks out on the world with unbound curiosity and zeal, every coruscant melody and glowing harmony another discovery." Uncut, naming Acadia an Album of the Year, declares its songs "so full of imagination and life-enhancing radiance that you could wallow in their fragrance all day. The technique is dazzling ... Gorgeous and then some."
Yasmin Williams recently stopped by the NPR offices in Washington, DC, to perform a Tiny Desk Concert of songs from Acadia and more. "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," says NPR's Lars Gotrich. "Storytellers build worlds; at the Tiny Desk, Williams invites us into hers." You can watch it here:
Guitarist and composer Yasmin Williams, who continues her US headlining tour in Colorado this weekend, has announced a two-week tour of Europe in June. The tour kicks off with a set at the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona on June 6, with shows in Paris, Utrecht, The Hague, London, Leeds, and Bristol, culminating in Copenhagen. on June 19. Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 21. See below for details and tickets or visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.
Williams's Nonesuch debut album, Acadia, was released to critical acclaim in October. Her most sonically expansive work to date, Acadia is nine original, mostly instrumental tracks written and produced by Williams, and features her on various guitars, banjo, calabash drum, tap shoes, and kora. She is joined by an eclectic cast of collaborators—including Immanuel Wilkins, Dom Flemons, Aoife O’Donovan, William Tyler, Darlingside, and others—creating a folk music that reflects the wide range of musical influences that have inspired her throughout her life. You can get it and hear it here.
"Williams is now making some of the most purely beautiful guitar music anywhere," exclaims the Guardian. Mojo, in its four-star review, says: "Forgoing cynicism, she looks out on the world with unbound curiosity and zeal, every coruscant melody and glowing harmony another discovery." Uncut, naming Acadia an Album of the Year, declares its songs "so full of imagination and life-enhancing radiance that you could wallow in their fragrance all day. The technique is dazzling ... Gorgeous and then some."
Yasmin Williams recently stopped by the NPR offices in Washington, DC, to perform a Tiny Desk Concert of songs from Acadia and more. "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," says NPR's Lars Gotrich. "Storytellers build worlds; at the Tiny Desk, Williams invites us into hers." You can watch it here:
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Guitarist and composer Yasmin Williams, who continues her US headlining tour in Colorado this weekend, has announced a two-week tour of Europe in June. The tour kicks off with a set at the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona on June 6, with shows in Paris, Utrecht, The Hague, London, Leeds, and Bristol, culminating in Copenhagen. on June 19. Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 21. See below for details and tickets or visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.
Williams's Nonesuch debut album, Acadia, was released to critical acclaim in October. Her most sonically expansive work to date, Acadia is nine original, mostly instrumental tracks written and produced by Williams, and features her on various guitars, banjo, calabash drum, tap shoes, and kora. She is joined by an eclectic cast of collaborators—including Immanuel Wilkins, Dom Flemons, Aoife O’Donovan, William Tyler, Darlingside, and others—creating a folk music that reflects the wide range of musical influences that have inspired her throughout her life. You can get it and hear it here.
"Williams is now making some of the most purely beautiful guitar music anywhere," exclaims the Guardian. Mojo, in its four-star review, says: "Forgoing cynicism, she looks out on the world with unbound curiosity and zeal, every coruscant melody and glowing harmony another discovery." Uncut, naming Acadia an Album of the Year, declares its songs "so full of imagination and life-enhancing radiance that you could wallow in their fragrance all day. The technique is dazzling ... Gorgeous and then some."
Yasmin Williams recently stopped by the NPR offices in Washington, DC, to perform a Tiny Desk Concert of songs from Acadia and more. "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," says NPR's Lars Gotrich. "Storytellers build worlds; at the Tiny Desk, Williams invites us into hers." You can watch it here:
Congratulations to Darcy James Argue, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Ambrose Akinmusire, Mary Halvorson, and Brad Mehldau on their JJA Jazz Association's 2025 JJA Jazz Awards nominations: Argue for Composer of the Year and Arranger of the Year, which he won last year, and, with Secret Society, Large Ensemble of the Year; Salvant for Female Vocalist of the Year, which she won last year, and, with pianist Sullivan Fortner Duo of the Year; Akinmusire for Trumpeter of the Year, which he won last year; Halvorson for Guitarist of the Year, which she won last year; and Mehldau for Pianist of the Year.
Rhiannon Giddens reunites with her former Carolina Chocolate Drops bandmate Justin Robinson on What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow, out now. Produced by Giddens and Joseph "joebass" DeJarnette, the album features Giddens on banjo and Robinson on fiddle, playing 18 of their favorite North Carolina tunes. Many were learned from their late mentor, legendary North Carolina Piedmont musician Joe Thompson; one is from another musical hero, the late Etta Baker. Giddens and Robinson recorded outdoors at Thompson’s and Baker’s North Carolina homes, as well as the former plantation Mill Prong House, accompanied by the sounds of nature. You can watch eight performance videos from the album here. Giddens leads her first-ever festival, Biscuits & Banjos, in Durham, NC, next weekend, then goes on tour with Robinson.
