The Venus Kings take a Saturday at Grant's Lounge, the room that helped launch Southern rock

Seventy-five capacity, $10 at the door of history: The Venus Kings play Grant's Lounge on Saturday, Dec 5, at 9 p.m.

There are bigger rooms in Macon, and there are newer ones. There isn't one with more history per square foot than Grant's Lounge, and on Saturday, Dec 5, The Venus Kings get their turn on its stage.

The facts: The Venus Kings play Grant's Lounge on Saturday, Dec 5, with the show starting at 9 p.m. Tickets are $10 through See Tickets, linked from our show page. The show was announced Oct 22. Grant's holds 75 people, so this is about as close to a band as you can get without joining it.

That capacity is the headline. Seventy-five tickets for a Saturday night in December, at ten dollars apiece, is a small number in a town that loves a night out. If you want in, buy now rather than planning to decide that week.

Then there's the room itself, which is the reason a show here is never just a show. Edward Grant Sr. opened Grant's Lounge at 576 Poplar Street in February 1971, and it became known as the birthplace of Southern rock. Bands auditioned there for Capricorn Records, and the Allman Brothers Band played the room often between 1971 and 1976. Plenty of Macon institutions trade on that era. Grant's actually lived it.

Bands auditioned here for Capricorn Records. Fifty-five years later, it's still a working stage.

It's also still a working club, which matters more than the plaques. Grant's marked 55 years of music in 2026, and the Moonhanger Group, which took over the lounge, has said it wants Grant's to be "a historical living museum for Southern Rock," while it continues to host bands and artists of all genres. A renovation was meant to keep its vintage feel rather than polish it away. The point of a living museum is that the music keeps happening, and nights like this one are how it does.

That's the right way to think about a show like The Venus Kings on a December Saturday. Part of the appeal of Grant's has always been finding a band in a room this small, close enough to hear the amps before the PA, with a crowd that came because it trusts the room. A $10 ticket and a 9 p.m. start make it easy to take that chance.

A few practical notes. Buy through See Tickets on our show page, not a reseller; with 75 spots, the official link is the one that matters. A 9 p.m. start leaves room for dinner downtown first. And get there early, because in a room this size, where you stand is most of the night.

If you've lived in Macon a while, you've probably got a Grant's story. Go get another one.

Sources: JamBase: The Venus Kings at Grant's Lounge (jambase.com); Macon Newsroom: Grant's Lounge, a tiny sliver of Macon gold (macon-newsroom.com); Visit Macon: Grant's Lounge (visitmacon.org); WGXA: Grant's Lounge celebrates 55 years of music and legacy (wgxa.tv); WGXA: Moonhanger Group taking over historic Grant's Lounge (wgxa.tv); The Creek FM: Moonhanger Group partners with Grant's Lounge to preserve birthplace of Southern rock (thecreekfm.com); WGXA: Grant's Lounge renovation won't change its vintage touch (wgxa.tv); See Tickets: The Venus Kings, Macon (prod-nts-api.seeticketsusa.us)