Will Stratton

Folklore Sessions Presents;
Will Stratton + Trippers & Askers
July 8th, The Folklore Rooms
£12.50adv | 18+

Will Stratton is a songwriter and guitarist born in California's Central Valley and living in New York’s Hudson Valley. His eighth LP, Points of Origin, is a sprawling concept album, telling a story about intensifying California wildfires, intergenerational nostalgia, and human connection.

It is out on March 7th on Bella Union (worldwide) and Ruination Records (USA). His previous albums, 2021’s The Changing Wilderness and 2017’s Rosewood Almanac, received critical acclaim from Sir Elton John, Alexis Petridis (The Guardian), and journalists at Pitchfork, Mojo, Guitarist, and Uncut, among others. Collaborators have included Hannah Frances, Cassandra Jenkins, The Weather Station, and Ben Seretan.

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.