This website uses cookies. Read more about our cookie/privacy policy.

Accept and Close

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 fifth year running in September 2026.

Come back soon for lineup and venue details for 2026.

You might also like...

Northern Live - Do I Love You

Fri. 27 February 2026

The Octagon Centre

Keeping the faith to the original sounds of the underground movement that started on the dance floors in the north and swept the nation.

Open Up Sheffield

Multiple dates

Sheffield's annual artists' open studios festival, taking place over two weekends and a bank holiday in May.

Playing Patterns: Percussion & Strings - Colin Currie & Ensemble 360

Sat. 14 February 2026

Playhouse

Virtuoso percussionist Colin Currie is joined by members of Ensemble 360 for a concert of life-affirming music for percussion and string quartet.

Sheffield Chamber Music Festival Launch: Claire Booth (soprano) & Ensemble 360

Fri. 15 May 2026

Playhouse

Claire Booth kicks off the 2026 Sheffield Chamber Music Festival in style. Guest Curator Claire Booth opens with a one-woman opera retelling the story of ‘the last real Viking’, Harald Hardrada, by Judith Weir.