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The Sheffield culture guide written by in-the-know locals

Float Along music festival returns to Sheffield city centre to do it all again for the fourth year running in September 2025.

The festival is set to fill six venues with live music – Corporation, Hallamshire Hotel, The Washington, Sidney & Matilda, Foundry and Triple Point Brewery.

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The Washington

An important venue for Sheffield’s grassroots music scene, hosting sweaty gigs in its side room since the 70s. The pub was a notorious hangout for The Human League and Pulp – the latter's drummer Nick Banks even enjoyed a brief stint as its landlord.

Quartet for the end of time

Sat. 1 November 2025

Playhouse

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.

Vienesse Masterworks: Brahms and more for solo piano

Thu. 4 December 2025

Playhouse

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.

Mozart Gran Partita

Sat. 22 November 2025

Upper Chapel, Norfolk Street, S1 2JD

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