Will Stratton and Trippers & Askers

House Folk are proud to welcome American singer-songwriter and composer, Will Stratton with support from Trippers & Askers this July! 

Points of Origin is Will’s eighth LP, his third for Bella Union. His previous two albums, 2021’s The Changing Wilderness and 2017’s Rosewood Almanac attracted positive recognition from the likes of Elton John, Alexis Petridis at The Guardian, Tom Doyle at Mojo, and Saby Reyes-Kulkarni at Pitchfork. Will was born in Woodland, California in 1987, spent his formative years all over the greater Pacific Northwest and mid-Atlantic United States, and has lived and worked in the Hudson Valley town of Beacon, New York for the better part of the last decade.

“Rich, filmic folk-country... a vivid, endlessly beguiling listen.” Uncut – 8/10 (Americana Album of the Month)

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“Outstanding... Points of Origin is a rare gem of an album. It’s music bursting with poetry, narrative, filmic suggestions, and of course, life.” Americana UK – 9/10

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“Stratton has a talent for painting vivid details while composing a big picture that brims with universal truths. His characteristic fingerpicking is accompanied by piano and strings that are as subdued as they are elegant, with warm echoes of Paul Simon by way of Sufjan Stevens and Mount Eerie.” Shindig – 4 stars ****

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Trippers & Askers is the folk / spiritual jazz project of musician, sound artist, educator and researcher Jay Hammond. The group's latest album Acorn takes inspiration from Octavia Butler's immersive and frighteningly prescient novel Parable of the Sower.

As an intertextual work, Acorn brings together a wide array of collaborators that include members of Wye Oak, Califone, former Sun Ra member Ken Moshesh and comic artist John Jennings to explore the book's narrative as it pertains to the very real political and emotional challenges of the present.

The album was called "a shimmering homage to nature" by The Guardian.