The Bitter Spills 20th Anniversary at the Aster Cafe 9/11/25

Name: The Bitter Spills 20th Anniversary at the Aster Cafe 9/11/25
Start: 2025-09-11T20:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-11T22:00:00-05:00
Location: Aster Cafe

Schedule

Thu Sep 11 2025 at 08:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Aster Cafe | Minneapolis, MN

20 years ago we started on this adventure in folk music. Unbelievable. We're *almost* the old guys we set out to emulate.. :)
Come for a rollicking night of folk song favorites and fellowship with friends and neighbors in the perfect venue for the Spills, the Aster.
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The Bitter Spills: 20th Anniversary Concert - September 11, 2025, Aster Cafe Minneapolis 8pm.
"Baby" Grant Johnson and Rich Mattson met in the late 1980's, when they were playing original rock and roll in & around Minneapolis. They each played in several bands since then, the main ones being for Grant: Beyond Zebra, Carpetbaggers, The New Vintage (also a well known solo performer). Rich: the Glenrustles, Ol’ Yeller (and currently Rich Mattson and the Northstars). Grant and Rich started performing together for the first time in 2005 as the Bitter Spills.
Grant Johnson's lifelong fascination with folk music wore off over the years on a more contemporary-trained Rich Mattson, and after the late 2004 "Minnesota Folk Tour" (that included Charlie Parr), Rich was infected with the folk style. The two decided to carry on as an acoustic duo with an idea: To find as many folk chestnuts as they could learn together, record them, and travel the country performing and selling CD's from the stage...always finding new tunes along the way. 20 years later the old buddies have no problem dusting off those old tunes, and have written a good grip of songs to play together as well.