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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.

Last year, the festival filled three venues with live music – Corporation, The Leadmill and Sidney & Matilda – and brought DJ sets to Triple Point Brewery.

Come back soon for details of the Float Along 2025 lineup and venues.

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The Pocket Ellington, Alan Barnes & Dave Green & Vimala Rowe

Wed. 8 October 2025

Crucible Theatre

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.

Death & The Maiden

Thu. 20 November 2025

Upper Chapel, Norfolk Street, S1 2JD

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.

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A Film About Studio Electrophonique

Fri. 17 October 2025

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