Unique expressive music from a singer and songwriter known for his songs of warmth, simplicity and heart-felt lyricism.

A layered perspective on the planet's most urgent issue. Using synths, live vocals, laser, video and data on forced migration to look at the present and future effects of global warming.

Catch Sheffield’s finger-picking folk troubadour and his band in the beautiful surroundings of the Merlin Theatre in Nether Edge. Support comes from the mesmeric and haunting R.Loomes.

A lunchtime talk by Dr Tim Shephard exploring the music of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and its historic and cultural contexts – revealing the strange and wonderful soundscape of a Renaissance masterwork of magical realism.

Over the past twenty years, the Canadian Jensen sisters have each shaped prolific careers in contemporary jazz –  as trumpeter and saxophonist respectively.

At this panel discussion, speakers from Sheffield's music community will look at the role of social housing estates in the local music scene, particularly in the 1990s. Speakers include Winston Hazel and Amy Carter, with moderator Auriel Majumdar.

It may have been one of the world's most famous art and design schools, but the Bauhaus wasn't all about learning. It also knew how to party! Join GRL. DJs for a night of dancing inspired by the Bauhaus art school's legendary fancy-dress parties.

A national festival of the humanities. The University of Sheffield presents an exploration of this year's theme of myths, dreams and love through a free programme of immersive events, projections, theatre, food, music and talks.

A sound installation in David Mellor’s cutlery workshop in Hathersage, created by sound art collective SONA. Inspired by and experimenting with sounds from the factory floor and stages of the assembly cycle – stamping, filing, grinding, polishing.

An entertaining lunchtime concert for flute, oboe and piano, featuring glorious Baroque music, a charming trio by British composer, actor and cartoonist Madeleine Dring, and champagne cork-popping Italian opera.

Imperial Wax are the longest serving and final lineup of peerless Manchester pioneers The Fall. Veterans Keiron Melling, Dave Spurr and Pete Greenway have teamed up with frontman Sam Curran and released their debut album Gastwerk Saboteurs this May.

One of the world’s great cabaret singers, performing original arrangements of songs by Bob Dylan and Jacques Brel, as well as some of her own.

Simply beautiful lyrical music, bringing together European jazz-rock influences, free playing, textured harmonies and arching melodies.

A spellbinding exploration of Schubert’s works for solo piano concludes with an unmissable trilogy of Sonatas.

Sheffield Jazz host a true European jazz super-group.

A night of queer performance, dancing and cake, hosted by Andro and Eve.

Celebrate the magazine's eleven years in print with a multi-room party with some unmissable talent, DJs, and an extensive network of writers, musicians, artists and activists that make Now Then what it is.

Spend your lunchtime in the company of Music in the Round, and the sounds of a Brahms’s cello sonata and a piece for violin by Joseph Joachim.

Winner of the 2018 BBC Young Jazz Musician of the
Year, tenor sax player Xhosa Cole is joined by a quartet of some of finest UK-based talent.

Sheffield Women’s Counselling and Therapy Service, now known as Saffron, have been supporting women in Sheffield since 1989. Join them to commemorate their landmark birthday with an evening of music, art, comedy and performance by women.

Cellist Laura van der Heijden and pianist Tom Poster present a fascinating programme of the full range of tones and colours from cello repertoire spanning 200 years. Followed by an informal Q&A session.

Sheffield Jazz bring to town Fabled – the brainchild of saxophonist/clarinettist Sam Rapley, who has assembled a group of the UK's most exciting young musicians.

Cellist Laura van der Heijden and outstanding pianist Tom Poster lead two relaxed concerts for young children and their grown-ups, with bubbles, percussion and props.

Sheffield Cathedral will be filled with the music of Vivaldi, Corelli and Bach this December, when Harriet Mackenzie and the Piccadilly Sinfonietta come to town.

“One of the world’s finest young string quartets” according to the New Yorker, the Philadelphia-based quartet has paired Hindemith’s concise and passionate Third Quartet with Brahms’s Quartet in B flat for this recital.

Seriously exciting music from a saxophonist of international stature and his excellent band.

Featuring works by Howard Skempton, Beethoven, and Vaughan Williams. With poems are sung by tenor James Gilchrist, praised by The Times as an interpreter of English song who is “in a class by himself”.

An evening of music that takes us to the extremes of Beethoven’s character.

A lunchtime concert featuring two of the most glorious works for violin and piano of the later Romantic period: Polish composer Karol Szymanowski’s Myths and César Franck’s majestic Sonata.

This lunchtime concert features two of the most glorious works for violin and piano of the later Romantic period.

A joyful showcase of Beethoven and more from the wind players of Ensemble 360.

Ensemble 360 performs two relaxed concerts for young children and their grown-ups.

Join Music in the Round for a leisurely Sunday of music, all while enjoying refreshments from the many independent outlets in Kommune.

Come and play along with friendly musicians from Ensemble 360 and Hallam Sinfonia. You'll play through the first movement of Beethoven’s greatest symphony, No. 5 (da-da-da-DUUUUMMM).

A trio of beautifully balanced and contrasting works, played by a thrilling performer.

American rising stars, violinist Randall Goosby and pianist Jonathan Ware, make their Crucible Studio debut supported by the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT).

Damascus-born Maya Youssef is hailed as ‘the queen of the qanun’, a traditional Syrian 78-stringed plucked zither.

Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar), one of Handel’s most celebrated operas: a story of passion and revenge. And Così fan tutte by Mozart, a glorious music and farcical story of young love and fidelity.

An oasis of calm between the trees. With music, arts and crafts market, heritage craft workshops, and more.