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Due to illness, Yasmin Williams must cancel her performance tonight. She is truly sorry and will get back to Columbus as soon as she can.
Please contact our Visitor Experience team for refunds at (614) 292-3535. We hope to announce a new date soon.
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We believe the arts are for everyone. By providing personal choice on ticket pricing, we seek to reduce barriers to the arts. Please choose the ticket price that is right for you based on your own needs. If you are able, please consider paying access sponsor pricing, which generously supports these efforts to provide access to our communities.
ACCESSIBILITY We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation such as CART captioning or ASL interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Accessibility Manager Helyn Marshall at accessibility@wexarts.org or via telephone at (614) 688-3890. Requests made by two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the Wexner Center for the Arts will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
Bask in the bright, lush soundscapes of one of guitar music’s most promising young talents as she brings her mesmerizing solo act to the Wex.
Reimagining the white male–dominated genre of fingerstyle guitar, Yasmin Williams dazzles with a virtuosic style paired with her very own, trailblazing techniques. Often playing with the guitar in her lap, strings facing skyward, Williams’s sound is at once comfortingly familiar and wholly original. In addition to her command of the strings, Williams deftly layers percussive elements like the kalimba, mallets from hammered dulcimers, and even tap shoes, evoking an ensemble of sound to tell a story. Her second and most recent album, Urban Driftwood, was completed during the COVID-19 lockdowns and Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, serving as a diary and means of finding solace during that year.
Yasmin Williams, photo: Zach Pigg.
Growing up in northern Virginia, Yasmin Williams was inspired to learn electric guitar after she beat the video game Guitar Hero II on expert level in 8th grade. She taught herself to play electric guitar and other stringed instruments by ear before deciding to focus on acoustic guitar for its versatility, along with the ability it gave her to build on the lap-tapping techniques she developed playing Guitar Hero. Williams recorded and mixed her first EP, Serendipity, in 2012 while still in high school. She went on to receive a BM in Music Theory and Composition from New York University in 2017. Her inspirations include Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, Earth, Wind & Fire, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Amadou Kouyate. Williams’s most recent album, Urban Driftwood, was released in 2021 on the radical feminist record label Spinster.
PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY Greater Columbus Arts Council The Wexner Family National Endowment for the Arts Ohio Arts Council L Brands Foundation The Columbus Foundation Nationwide Foundation Institute of Museum and Library Services Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY Mike and Paige Crane Axium Packaging CampusParc Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams President Kristina M. Johnson and Mrs. Veronica Meinhard Nancy Kramer Larry and Donna James Lisa Barton Johanna DeStefano Jones Day Alex and Renée Shumate
Past Performing Arts
Yasmin Williams
