The Oshawa Music Hall, a starting ground for several local bands that have since made it big, is closing after four years. “It’s been tough,” said Maggie Maybee, who owned the venue with her husband Ed. “An extreme sense of loss; I mean, we knew it was coming.
The writing was really on the wall.” The couple had one of their last concerts there when they hosted Matthew Good in March before the coronavirus pandemic forced non-essential businesses to shut down.
But Ed says that after mounting costs of up to $13,000 monthly, operating the venue just got to be too much to handle. “When our hard costs here are so high, we don’t have a chance to survive with zero income,” Ed said. “The way the pandemic is going, it could be Christmas, it could be