The annual Sharrow Festival sadly isn't happening this year due to lack of funds. To raise money for the festival's future and keep up the community spirit, Back to the Bones will bring bands to two stages in Sheffield General Cemetery.

The Weeping Willows (Laura Coates and Andrew Wrigglesworth) are a couple of old souls, steeped in bluegrass tradition and draped in gothic Americana imagery.

A 19th-century cutlery factory turned home to artists, craftspeople and small businesses. Explore this fascinating birthplace of stainless steel cutlery at its annual Open Day. With open studios, tours, workshops, demos, live music and stalls.

An inner-city flower market, celebrating all things botanical. Taking over a patch of Sheffield city centre one Sunday a month, with plants, flowers, fresh produce and music.

Dedicated to drum and bass, house, bassline, and beyond.

Clamlines is back. Get ready for spicy lageritas, never-ending karaoke, one sweaty room and discovering your new fave artist. With glam-tinged garage rock from Mock Tudors, Newcastle punks Irked, French foot-stompers The Garden Folk, and lots more.

Starting things a day early, Yellow Arch's Thursday night is curated by Sheffield’s WaterBear College of Music. Friday is a hardcore and metal night, while Saturday features noise punk and a band who sit somewhere between 80s hardcore and 00s indie.

Hatch don’t do things by halves. Going all out with a typically varied lineup of 17 acts over two days. With noise-rock weirdos Dearthworms, Devo devotees Cowtown, folk druids Slug Milk and more, plus ‘business-oke’ and DJs to round off each night.

The Wub Club take over Forge with three stages, over 30 artists – including legendary DnB DJ/producer Ray Keith (uncle of Joy Orbison!) – and a secret headliner. Every dance genre is represented, from acid house to rare-groove, jungle to hardcore.

Two nights of free music at Alder. With shoegaze-inspired indie, noisy grunge and a brother-sister punk duo on Friday, followed by contemporary jazz, improv, Latin and deep funk on Saturday.

Community music venue Mary St Live puts on gigs, club nights and music education to fund its accessible space for local charities, groups and musicians. Join them upstairs on Saturday evening to see Sheffield bands 54KG, Das Chip Shop and more.

A three-day summertime celebration of music. On the lineup for 2025: Pulp(!!!), Spiritualized, The Last Dinner Party, Sigrid, CMAT, John Grant, Franz Ferdinand, and more.

Home to the official Tramlines Fringe, Dev Green will showcase an array of local talent. With Rotherham indie upstarts The Tivolis, ska covers band Jungle Lion, reggae pioneer Macka B, and performances from 14-to-25-year-olds from the Tracks project.

A mighty 38 acts complete the lineup for Sidney & Matilda’s now annual response to Tramlines. With power poppers Post Archives, dance pop trio Good News, psych synth wizards Sister Wives and, straight from the main event, Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor.

Art rockers Ornate Coalmine win the award for best band name of the weekend. Isis Moray will also be there with her dark, glitchy soundscapes, as well as psych-rock wizards Yo Dynamo and Sieben, who uses only his voice, a violin and a loop pedal.

For Tramlines weekend, Corp presents three events with very unique flavours. Friday is its signature heavy music evening Metallish Allsorts. Saturday is local showcase Rock the Fringe​​​​​​​. Sunday is the turn of gothic folk ensemble The Midsommars.

Sheffield's contemporary blues / roots / country / Americana promoters present two free Tramlines gigs. First up is an all-dayer at Neepsend Social Club on Saturday. Followed by the brilliantly named Bath Lines at the Bath Hotel on Sunday.

The lively West Street music hall is putting on a stacked three-day programme of acts from Sheffield and beyond – for free. With Bones Ate Arfa, The Bowie Contingent, We Hate the Sharkman, Atakarma, Broken Narrative, Bonk!, Blue John, and tons more.

Regarded as one of the most original bands to emerge from the post-punk era. From dub reggae to krautrock to angular dance pop, their sound has borrowed and evolved throughout the years. What’s remained constant is John Lydon’s anger, pain and wit.

A night of pop anthems, heartbreak hits, and fierce vibes at this Olivia Rodrigo vs. Sabrina Carpenter tribute show.

A festival promoting diversity, unity and community spirit, shining a spotlight on cultural traditions of the South Asian community. With live music and dance, activities for young people, exhibitions and demos, fun fair rides, and more.

Utopia Theatre’s free monthly platform for celebrating talent and creativity in Sheffield. Welcoming upcoming and established performers across all genres. First Sunday of every month.

Food, music and art in a former warehouse, one weekend a month. Plus kids craft activities on the Saturday afternoons. With bonus Christmas crafts for their festive edition.

Celebrate South Asian Heritage Month with dance and music performances from Sunrit Culture Group.

An open jam session led by the Footprints house band. All musicians and vocalists are invited to join – or just come down to enjoy the music.

"Forged in fire, set in steel." An all-dayer dedicated to rock and metal. Back for 2025 in its new venue of FORGE Warehouse.

Accordionist, clog dancer, composer Heather Ferrier is changing the perceptions of alt-folk on her own terms. Joined by guitarist Alistair Paul and drummer Adam Stapleford.

Dust off your air guitars for an evening of classic rock anthems from legends past and present.

A festival and conference on algorithmic pattern-making. Exploring procedural approaches in human culture – from heritage arts and crafts like textiles and bell-ringing, to the contemporary likes of live coding and generative art.

A new independent metal festival for 2025 – by the fans, for the fans. Showcasing a lineup of local homegrown artists and national acts, open to all ages and types of metalheads.

Ensemble 360 perform some of Mozart’s most charming works, as well as music by Robert Schumann.

Float Along music festival returns to Sheffield city centre to do it all again for the third year running. Details of this year's lineup and venues to come...

Experience the soul-stirring magic of The Signatures, the backing band for many of the Northern Soul original artists.

A stirring evening of romantic favourites performed by the Leonore Piano Trio.

Sheffield's festival of film and music. Expect a truly unique mix of performance, live film scores, screenings, exhibitions, and music industry activity.

Sheffield Jazz present a double bill featuring a classic Ellington sound followed by award-winning singer Vimala Rowe, a major talent on the British jazz scene.

A history of land rights and protest in folk song and story. Part history talk, part folk club sing-a-long, part storytelling session.

Chris Addison (The Thick of It, Mock the Week) joins Ensemble 360 to bring his infectious enthusiasm for classical music to the Crucible. Telling the story of Europe from the courts of 17th century Italy to today’s contemporary composers.

A night of Beatlemania packed with hits from the most influential band of all time.

A musical version of Benji Davies’ modern-classic The Storm Whale. The story of a boy, a whale washed up on the beach and friendships that will change their lives forever.

Nigel Kennedy is the best-selling classical violinist of all time and a past collaborator with Paul McCartney, Kate Bush, The Who and Led Zeppelin. He takes to the Crucible stage along with cellist Beata Urbanek-Kalinowska.

A weekend of bleeps, beats and sweaty grins – bringing together music, visual art and technology. Lineup for 2025 to be confirmed.

Éliane Radigue’s Occam XXV – written for, and performed here by, the French organist Frédéric Blondy – envelops its listener in a slowly evolving ocean of sound.

Musicians Rhodri Davies, Angharad Davies and Dominic Lash are joined by Louise Gray (writer for The Wire) and author Julia Eckhardt to discuss the work of pioneering French composer Éliane Radigue.

Welsh harpist and improvisor Rhodri Davies, together with Angharad Davies (violin) and Dominic Lash (double bass), present a selection of works composed for them by Radigue.

Ensemble 360’s violinist Benjamin Nabarro presents Bach’s third Sonata and Partita. Unmatched in the 400 years since their composition, these are pieces that continue to dazzle and amaze.

Monegasque-Sri Lankan pianist Shani Diluka performs music by Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Moondog and JS Bach.

Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time is the centrepiece of this concert showcasing music to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Performed by Ensemble 360.

Leading Messiaen scholar Professor Christopher Dingle joins musicians from Ensemble 360 for a roundtable discussion of one of the great masterpieces of the twentieth century: Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time.

Piatti Quartet perform string music composed for, and used in, cinema. Featuring compositions by Jonny Greenwood for There Will Be Blood, Bernard Herman’s for Psycho, and Philip Glass for Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters.

Singer Claire Booth and Ensemble 360 present an evening of French chamber music.

Pianist Libby Burgess presents a recital of some of the best-loved music for solo piano – from the dazzling inventiveness of Schubert’s Four Impromptus to the lush romanticism of Rachmaninov’s Morceaux de Fantaisie.

Konnakol (vocal percussive music from the South Indian Carnatic tradition) artist BC Manjunath, live-coder Alex McLean and drummer Matt Davies present an evening of live-coded electronic music and percussion.

Travel back in time and relive the sights and sounds of the 1970s.

The Dudok Quartet present Schubert’s extraordinary string quartet. Alongside their own arrangement of a 17th century Italian madrigal by Carlo Gesualdo and Kaija Saariaho’s modern masterpiece Terra Memoria.

Ensemble 360 perform one Mozart’s greatest works, immortalised in the 1984 film Amadeus, in this concert of chamber music on a large scale.

Tim Horton returns to Sheffield for the latest in his series celebrating the musical history of Vienna. Beethoven’s well-known Piano Sonata No.15, nicknamed the ‘Pastoral’, is showcased alongside Brahms’s emotional and romantic Four Ballades.

For this ‘relaxed’ concert, doors will be left open, lights raised, a break-out space provided, and there will be less emphasis on the audience being quiet during the performance. With Ensemble 360 performing Beethoven.

Ensemble 360 celebrate one of the greatest composers to have ever lived.

Unite the Union Brass Band present a special festive performance of the Christmas classic with a live score.

Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason presents two of Beethoven’s best-loved works for solo piano: the ‘Moonlight’ and the ‘Waldstein’ sonatas.