After 15 years of patrons warbling hits, the Gladstone Hotel is ending one of the city’s best known karaoke nights.

This Saturday, March 22, will be the last karaoke night at the Gladstone. It’s also the first time the event’s venue, the Melody Bar, has been used for amateur singing since the room was damaged by a burst pipe.

On Jan. 7, during the peak of the polar vortex, a pipe burst and took down the Melody ceiling, damaging soundproofing, speakers and audio equipment, according to Andi Larocca, a spokesperson for the Gladstone.

The room hasn’t been used for karaoke since, Larocca said; without the Melody Bar’s soundproofing the noise would disturb hotel guests.

The Gladstone, which turns 125 this year — making it the longest continuously operating hotel in the city — is in a period of transition, Larocca added, and the renovations to the Melody Bar are an opportunity for change, including an end to karaoke.

“We were just thinking, the universe is giving us a sign,” Larocca said.

Not everyone agrees with the decision.

“It’s a damn shame,” said longtime host Peter Styles, who has been the voice of Gladstone karaoke for 14 years.

The popular event has been voted one of the best karaoke nights in the city and at one point hosted an annual “Karaoke Superstar” contest.

Styles, 58, said he’s heard from a quite a few fans who aren’t happy to see the event end.

“A lot of people are really upset by the decision,” Larocca said.

It isn’t clear yet what the Melody Bar will be used for. Right now, the Gladstone is asking people to write their ideas for the space on cocktail napkins in the Melody Bar, Larocca said.

Saturday’s final show will “be a really bittersweet celebration, but it’s definitely something we’re so proud and so happy to have here for 15 years,” Larocca said.

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At the moment, Styles, who has worked as a musician in Toronto for the past 35 years, is unsure where he’ll land.

“I’ll work wherever they hire me,” he said.