730K views · 8.6K reactions | Yasmin Williams only started playing the guitar after beating all the songs on expert-level on Guitar Hero II. Nine years later, she was a standout of the 2018 Tiny Desk Contest fueled by Lagunitas Brewing Co. Watch her performance from Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at the George Washington University | NPR Music | Facebook

Guitarist/composer Yasmin Williams stopped by the NPR offices in Washington, DC, to perform a Tiny Desk Concert of songs from her new album, 'Acadia,' and more. You can watch it at https://www.nonesuch.com/journal/watch-yasmin-williams-performs-npr-tiny-desk-concert-2025-02-07 "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 Music Lars Gotrich. "Storytellers