Fringe at Tramlines 2025 reveals full lineup of entirely free events
Fringe at Tramlines 2025 brings 400+ performances to 40+ Sheffield venues with headliners, rising stars & genre-spanning sets across the city. Scroll down to check it out!
Date published: 22nd Jul 2025
The Fringe at Tramlines is back in full swing for 2025, running alongside Tramlines Festival in Hillsborough Park, and providing more than 400 free performances across 40+ venues throughout Sheffield city centre on the weekend of the festival.
The biggest city-wide music celebration in South Yorkshire and one of the region’s most accessible cultural events, The Fringe at Tramlines will once again centre around the Devonshire Green main stage, this year topped by reggae legend Macka B and the Roots Ragga Band. He’ll be joined by Sheffield ska heroes Jungle Lion, punk-folk outfit Shanghai Treason, and the soul-soaked grooves of Soul Battalion.
The full programme digs even deeper, stretching across all genres, ages, and corners of the city. Scroll down and check it out!
Away from the Devonshire Green headliners, Hallan bring post-punk urgency to The Washington, while Sheffield three-piece Floodhounds deliver fuzzed-up riffs at the Hallamshire Hotel. Also at the Hallamshire, Brighton’s Bones Ate Arfa blend psychedelic street punk and desert rock, and Flat Party close Saturday night with one of the most thrilling live sets around.
Sheffield favourite Sam Scherdel also takes over The Washington with his gravel-toned anthems, while Whitehorse - the latest project from The Blinders’ Tom Haywood - offers masterful lyricism and understated swagger over at Sidney & Matilda. Sister Wives also weave bilingual dreamscapes of post-punk and psychedelia at the Rivelin Works venue, whilst synth-punk crew Hard As Nails bring high energy to Hatch.
If the dancefloor's calling, then the boogie-ready party brass from The Dep Collective and soul fire from Papa Soul and The All New Blues and Soul Revue. Or, if you're out to discover someone one the rise, then check out the poetic afrobeat fusion of Franz Von, Sheffield rapper Muccarelli, and powerful indie sets from My Lo-Fi Heart, Blue John, and Bonk!.
For full band euphoria, Captain Avery & The Cosmic Triceratops of Intergalactic Peace (watch your backs King Giz) headline Jabbarwocky with their unmissable cocktail of cosmic afrobeat, Balkan brass and psychedelic funk.
More than just a weekend of gigs, the Fringe is a love letter to Sheffield’s live music scene - one powered by Sheffield BID, Sheffield City Council and Tramlines Festival. In 2024, it brought 45,000 people into the city centre and generated an estimated £1.86 million for the local economy. Organisers are expecting similar footfall again.
To help visitors navigate the weekend, TravelMaster has launched a special £10 CityWide ticket for unlimited bus and tram use across two days - available via the app.
Want to attend South Yorkshire's biggest city-wide musical celebration? Then get yourself down, and find full listings and venue info - HERE
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