What's on - archive of past events

The Albion Christmas Band - Simon Nicol, Kellie While, Ashley Hutchings & Simon Care - have put together a new show for 2012, with fresh material, but the same firmly traditional feel. Expect an evening of acoustic music, tales & anecdotes drawing on the traditions and experience of Christmas & Winter from years gone by.

Looking backwards, not forwards, celebrating the simple rather than the bright lights, this is an escape from the razamatazz of the High Street to bring a more traditional feel of Christmas as the festive season begins.

Laura Marling will be doing a unique tour of some of Britains best loved Cathedrals in October this year. This will be a very special and unique series of shows. Laura will be releasing her third album A Creature I dont know on September 12th this year.

It follows the success of her sophomore record I Speak Because I Can' (also produced by Johns) - both that and her debut Alas I Cannot Swim were Mercury nominated, and this February she won the Best British Female Solo Artist prize at the Brit Awards, and best solo artist at the NME awards.

During a 20 Year Journey/Career she has become one of the most dazzling and recognised folk musicians of a generation. She has revitalised and made Folk music relevant to new audiences and has captured the most hardened of dissenters with canny, charismatic and boundary-crossing performance.

Twice-nominated for a prestigious nationwide Mercury Music Prize with 1998s Red Rice and 2003s Anglicana Eliza is also the winner of more than five BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, and has presented awards for MOJO magazine and been invited to judge at both the Q Awards and the Ivor Novello Awards. In 2003 she became the first English traditional musician to be nominated for a BBC Radio 3 Award for World Music.

Our concerts are a tribute to the skill, courage and talent of ordinary people from all over the UK who made an important decision: they wanted to sing, but on the big stage. This is the essence of Sing Live. We have no auditions to join the company as we believe everyone has a voice and the woods would be a very quiet place if the only birds that sang there were the birds that sang the best and our singers undergo a three month professional training program to prepare for the performance.

You will see people of all ages, all walks of life, just like you,ranging from absolute beginners to experienced singers all with one common aim, to Sing Live and perform in magnificent venues and entertain you with the very cream of songs from the musicals, the movies and beyond.

The initial reaction is often one of wonder and delight at the unexpected beauty of the liquid light and colours spilling across labyrinthine pathways, cavernous domes and curved walls. It is often described as walking though a stained glass window.

Visitors are transported into an amazing world of light, and are able to immense themselves in an experience of subtle and saturated coloured light to bring visual arts and the beauty of light and colour to places where you would not expect it.

Sheffield Cathedral's annual Summer Music and Arts Festival returns. The programme is an eclectic mix of entertainment, music, culture and literature including jazz concert, comedy evening and a silent film screening with organ accompanyment.

Highlights include Teddy Thompson, Emmy The Great, Clare Teal and Sir Andrew Motion, for details see the Festival section

a collection of rare and prestigious books, 'Books that Made the Bible', located in the 1554 Gallery.

This is to accompany the King James's Bible Exhibtion

would like to take this opportunity to invite you to our flagship Sheffield Chamber of Commerce event and a special milestone for my year as your President. As ever the event is expected to attract a capacity audience of approximately 350 guests including the A-list of the region's business world, Chamber Board members and dignitaries. This year’s dinner will be held within the main body of the 1000-year-old church and my personal thanks go the Dean and Bishop for making this possible. It will be the first time the Cathedral has staged an event of this nature in its history, and we hope to bring the business community closer to the work of the Cathedral and its partners. Specifically, the President’s Dinner will be supporting the Archer Project, which provides crucial interventions and services to the City’s homeless.

The evening provides an ideal opportunity to entertain corporate clients in one of the City’s landmark and historic venues. I am also delighted to announce that the speaker for the event is Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson DBE.

Mixing traditional and self-penned tunes, Hekety have been playing cutting edge English dance music since their formation in 1997. Based in Sheffield.

The dance floor will be the Cathedral of the nave, as the pews will be removed for a limited time only, creating the ideal space to host a ceilidh

In 2011 stylish Shetland fiddler Aly & accordionist Phil - the owner of the fastest, most sensitive fingers you're ever likely to hear - celebrate 25 years playing the music of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland together. Alongside their work as a duo, Aly is musical director of the BBC's Transatlantic Sessions, while Phi is in constant demand as a composer, performer and broadcaster.

Year after year they have proved, as a duo onstage together, that one plus one can soemtimes add up to so much more than two.

The one-man show An Evening With Rick Wakeman pretty much came about by accident. Quite simply, his gear didn't arrive for a show and all there was available was a piano. The audience were given the choice of their money back or an evening with Rick performing on the piano and telling ludicrously ridiculous and funny anecdotes. Only three people took up the offer of their money back, and An Evening With Rick Wakeman was born. These performances are very much on-offs and never done as a tour. The stories change on a regular basis, as does the music.

These performances don't happen very often, which is why each one is very special to Rick and hopefully for the audience as well.

Kathryn Tickell is one of the best-known and best-loved performers in the UK folk scene. Much of her music is rooted in the history, people and landscapes of her native Northumberland - all arranged with true craftsmanship, as fiddle, Northumbrian smallpipes, melodeon & guitar blend satisfyingly together to produce one of the most distinctive, yet expertly balanced sounds anywhere in traditional music.

Kathryn mesmerises on both pipes & fiddle, while the band's subtlety of touch is second to none. If ever music was able to lift an audience out of their humdrum cares for an evening, it is the music of the Kathryn Tickell Band.