Ideas Alive – Sheffield Music City

Neil McSweeney - Department of Music

29 October, 2025 at 6:00 pm

Musician Neil McSweeney and colleagues from the Department of Music, examine music’s deep roots in Sheffield’s story while envisioning the creative potential of our musicians and music organisations to help define the city’s future.

Ideas Alive is a series of podcasts by academics from the University of Sheffield talking about their fascinating research. A podcast link will go live on the festival website on the date and time publicised. Once live the episode can be listened to anytime, with other episodes from the series, on the University of Sheffield Player