The Kee To Bala

Great place… lots of fun… just watch out for the bouncers… they are pricks! Great concerts and the patio is awesome. Always a fun stagger back to the cottage.

Great venue but hot as hell in the Summer. I have a feeling the artist I went to see would have been up on stage longer had it not felt like a sauna the whole time. But the place is literally a big old barn so what can you expect. There are outside patios to escape the heat /​have a smoke if you need to.
Love how intimate it is and how you can get a good view of the stage from wherever you are. If you get right up close to the stage you can almost touch the lead singer! Quite a laid back vibe. A lot of attendees at the concert I went to looked like they didn’t «belong» but were just there to have fun. You can tell a lot of locals just come here for a good night out, regardless of who’s playing. The bathrooms were pretty crammed but they managed to squeeze 4 stalls in there so I didn’t have to wait long in line each time which can be a nightmare at other venues. Beer was a little pricey (and warm — $ 8 tall cans) but that’s to be expected at any concert venue I guess…
All in all, good times and I’d definitely return if another band/​artist I liked came here! (Even if it is a 2 and a half hour drive away from TO)

The Kee to Bala is a local legend. So many famous bands have ventured their way to the small cottage town of Bala to play here — bands from the 40s all the way to now. Heck, Snoop Dogg played the Kee last year, and Sam Roberts makes an annual appearance.
The venue is essentially a giant wooden barn on the lake front. The floors are sticky, there is nothing inside but wood, bars, bathrooms, and a stage. There is a giant balcony, but it is mostly for smokers, and the lineup to get outside is just as bad as the lineup to get into the venue.
Upstairs has seating and more bars, and a nice view of the stage.
Every Monday the Kee has a «resort night», which essentially has tons of barely legal teens bused to the Kee from various resorts in Muskoka. The music actually had variety, and even though I felt like the oldest person there, I still had a great time.

This place is known for hosting Canadian bands on weekends in the summer. It’s a bit of a legend among locals and cottagers. It’s defintely a casual place, not a super-​classy establishment. It’s an oldschool, bare-​bones place with sticky floors, but that doesn’t mean you won’t have a great time.
This is an old building right on the lake with a pretty nice patio out back. As for the inside, there’s really nothing special about it. The stage is probably about 6 feet high so there are no metal barricades, and you can see the band from pretty much anywhere. There is open general admission on the main floor and limited general admission seating upstairs. The seating is very uncomfortable, but if you want to sit upstairs, head up there as soon as you get in because they only allow a certain number of people up there (you can always head downstairs later on if you feel like it). There are bars on both levels.
There’s not a lot of parking here, but there is a free parking lot a couple hundred metres aw