The Filthy Heathens take a $10 shot at Grant's Lounge

The Dayton rock and country-rock band plays Macon's 75-capacity Poplar Street club on Friday, February 19. Doors aren't listed, but the show starts at 9 p.m.

Seventy-five people, one small stage, and a wall full of photos of who played here before. On Friday, February 19, 2027, The Filthy Heathens play Grant's Lounge. The show starts at 9 p.m., tickets are $10 through See Tickets, and the date went up on October 26.

The capacity is the part to remember. Grant's holds 75, so a sellout here is a handful of tickets, not thousands. At $10, there's no reason to wait until February.

The Filthy Heathens are a young band. According to a profile at Fans With Bands, they're a nationally touring rock and country-rock outfit from Dayton, Ohio. They came together out of jam sessions in 2021, during the pandemic, and released their debut EP, *Etheridge*, in May 2025. They've been playing bars and small rooms across Ohio, Tennessee, Missouri and Texas since then. A Friday at Grant's is just the kind of show bands like this build a route around.

The room is the reason Macon should care. Grant's Lounge opened in February 1971 on Poplar Street, started by Edward Grant Sr., according to the Macon Newsroom. Its rise went along with Capricorn Records, which used the club as a testing ground where potential new artists could audition. The Allman Brothers Band played there often from 1971 to 1976. The Marshall Tucker Band played there in 1972, and Tom Petty came through to audition with his early band Mudcrutch. The club calls itself "The Home of Southern Rock," and the photos on its walls, documented by Hole in the Donut, back that up.

Grant's has been auditioning rock bands since 1971.

It hasn't always been easy. Capricorn filed for bankruptcy in 1979, which ended that era. In 2014, NPR reported the club was facing a push to close it. Grant's is still open and still books bands of every kind, which in a downtown full of music history is worth more than a plaque.

So this show matters in a small way. A band five years in, playing guitar-heavy rock with a country edge, gets a Friday night in the same room where Capricorn once tried out new acts. Nobody's handing out record deals at the door anymore, but the audition is still the same: be good enough that the 75 people in the room tell their friends.

Get a ticket, get there before 9, and stand close.

Sources: The Filthy Heathens (Fans With Bands) (fanswithbands.substack.com); Grant's Lounge: A tiny sliver of Macon gold (Macon Newsroom) (macon-newsroom.com); PHOTO: Wall of Fame at Grant's Lounge in Macon, Georgia (Hole in the Donut) (holeinthedonut.com); Capricorn In Retrograde: Macon's Endangered Musical History (NPR) (npr.org); The Filthy Heathens at Grant's Lounge tickets (See Tickets) (prod-nts-api.seeticketsusa.us)