The Outside Track Explained

The Outside Track
Origin:Limerick, Ireland
Genre:Pan Celtic
Years Active:–present
Website:http://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,[1] [2] as well as Mairi Rankin, a relative of the Rankin family from Mabou, Cape Breton.[3] As a group they won ‘Best Group’ in the 2012 LiveIreland Music Award,[4] 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.[5]

Discography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Festival visiting acts range from Siberia to Canada | The Shetland Times Ltd . Shetlandtimes.co.uk . 2016-01-14 . 2016-02-12.
  2. Web site: Celtic band The Outside Track comes from different places, different grooves . MLive.com . 2012-04-10 . 2016-02-12.
  3. Web site: The Band . The Outside Track . 8 October 2018.
  4. Web site: The Outside Track | Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland . Tracscotland.org . 2016-02-12.
  5. Web site: David Kidman . The Outside Track – Light Up the Dark | Folk Radio UK . Folkradio.co.uk . 2015-09-07 . 2016-02-12.

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