The Outside Track
The Outside Track at the 2009 Goderich Celtic Roots Festival
Background information
OriginLimerick, Ireland
GenresPan Celtic
Years active2005 (2005)-present
Members
  • Mairi Rankin, Teresa Horgan, Fiona Black, Ailie Robertson, Michael Ferrie
Past members
,[1][2] Norah Rendell, Cillian O'Dalaigh, Fiona Black, Ailie Robertson, Ivonne Hernandez
Websitehttp://www.theoutsidetrack.com

The Outside Track is a Pan Celtic group that performs Scots, Irish and Cape Breton songs and stepdance. Members of the group include Ailie Robertson who has won a LiveIreland Music Award and was a BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician finalist, and Fiona Black who was a winner of the BBC’s Fame Academy,[3][4] as well as Mairi Rankin, a relative of the Rankin family from Mabou, Cape Breton.[5] As a group they won ‘Best Group’ in the 2012 LiveIreland Music Award,[6] a ‘Tradition In Review’ award, and was nominated for the 2013 MG Alba Scots Traditional Music Award. For their album Flash Company, they also won the German Radio Critics' Prize.[7]

Discography

  • Christmas Star (2022)
  • Rise Up (2018)
  • Light up the Dark (2015)
  • Flash Company (2013)
  • The Mountain Road (2012)
  • Curious Things Given Wings (2010)
  • Self-Titled (2007)

References

  1. ↑ Andrea Smith. "Bondings: Black is the colour - how singer Aoife Scott knew Andy Meaney was the guy for her". Independent.ie. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  2. ↑ Rannie Gillis (16 October 2015). "Two for the price of one in Boisdale - Columnists". Cape Breton Post. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  3. ↑ "Festival visiting acts range from Siberia to Canada | The Shetland Times Ltd". Shetlandtimes.co.uk. 14 January 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  4. ↑ "Celtic band The Outside Track comes from different places, different grooves". MLive.com. 10 April 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  5. ↑ "The Band". The Outside Track. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  6. ↑ "The Outside Track | Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland". Tracscotland.org. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  7. ↑ David Kidman (7 September 2015). "The Outside Track – Light Up the Dark | Folk Radio UK". Folkradio.co.uk. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
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