Free music festival staged in city wins national award

At the ceremony in London earlier this week, Tramlines beat “The Great Escape”, “Dot to Dot” and the “Camden Crawl” to win the prize.

Tramlines festival director Sarah Nulty said: “As you can imagine, we are all over the moon.

“There are so many people behind the scenes working on Tramlines in their own time and totally for free.

“Getting industry recognition like this is exactly what they deserve.

“We survive on sponsors’ money, help from Sheffield Council and obviously all the enthusiasm from people within Sheffield who attend it.

“We’re already working on next year’s festival and hope it will be just as successful.”

James Drury, managing director of Festival Awards Ltd said: “In only three years Tramlines has established itself as a force to be reckoned with.

“It’s a great achievement to win this award in such a short space of time and is testament to the hard work of everyone involved.

This is the third year that the Best Metropolitan Festival award category has been running, and Camden Crawl took the title in the first two years.

Hundreds of thousands of votes were cast in the UK Festival Awards, for around 200 events.

Sheffield Council leader Julie Dore added: “Sheffield is alive during Tramlines weekend with so many different types of music, laughter and entertainment. Here’s to 2012.”