Live Music Venues in Toronto and The Jay Danley Band at The Gladstone Hotel March 9 2017

They are dropping all over the place...live music venues closing at an alarming rate!

However, the awesome Gladstone Hotel is still doing it, offering people a place to go and hear great live music in Toronto.

The Jay Danley Band will be at The Gladstone Hotel on March 9 2017. Please come, bring friends and SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC!!

Here is a great picture of the Gladstone and an article from the CBC describing what may be causing the decline in venues:

It's a refrain heard in cities across Canada: small but influential live music venues are struggling and closing.

Toronto's The Hoxton and Hugh's Room, and The Carleton in Halifax are among the latest victims of the trend, joining Vancouver's Railway Club, which closed in 2016.

There are a host of reasons, from the changing habits of music lovers to harsh financial realities. One important issue is that some of these venerable venues sit on valuable real estate.

"In a city like Toronto or Vancouver or Halifax, real estate is incredibly valuable when you're in the downtown core," said music publicist Eric Alper.

"Somebody offers you a couple million dollars to put up condos, you're going to think real, real easy on making that transition."

More troubling, however, is that today, "university-aged kids don't go to shows," Mike Campbell, owner of Halifax's Carleton Music Bar and Grill, told CBC News.

"There's a generation or two out there that I would be surprised if they've ever seen live music."

He said the way many people consume music has drastically changed. Young people are more often engaging with and streaming music via mobile apps rather than checking out a new act in person.

Toronto music venue The Hoxton announced on its Facebook page that it will close at the end of January. (CBC)

"How we all meet now [is] with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube, iTunes, Spotify," noted Jason Parsons of Toronto band USS.

He and bandmate Ashley Buchholz are among those lamenting the demise of smaller music clubs — seen as an important incubator for new and up-and-coming performers.

Some of the shuttered venues, like Hugh's Room and the Railway Club, are hoping to reopen in some capacity but it's still unclear what that will look like.

With fewer launching pads, music lovers worry, emerging artists may not have the venues needed to turn them into stars.