By Will McGuirk

So a few hats I am wearing - I am sponsorship manager for the OMAs and I wrote the story for downtownsofdurham.ca about the OMAs linked below but here’s the takeaway the OMAs Durham Region Music Awards will go ahead for 2021 and will air in September, and depending on Covid-19 conditions possibly on a stage near you (if you live in Durham Region).

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“It’s a community we have turned to more and more in 2020, and it’s a community we will celebrate loudly and proudly in 2021. The diverse and varied music community of Durham Region will be centre stage at the Oshawa Music Awards (OMAs), taking place in September 2021. Whether the stage will be physical or virtual is not yet known, but what we do know is that the value music has to our collective economic, spiritual, and mental well-being will be acknowledged, recognized and honoured. This has been a time when so many have turned to music for personal solace, but also to send a message of hope and support to frontline workers—and it’s a message heard around the globe. Music, in some ways, was our first line of defence to stave off this Coronavirus.”