The Outside Track | |
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![]() The Outside Track at the 2009 Goderich Celtic Roots Festival | |
Background information | |
Origin | Limerick, Ireland |
Genres | Pan Celtic |
Years active | 2005 | –present
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Past members |
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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, [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]
The Outside Track | |
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![]() The Outside Track at the 2009 Goderich Celtic Roots Festival | |
Background information | |
Origin | Limerick, Ireland |
Genres | Pan Celtic |
Years active | 2005 | –present
Members |
|
Past members |
|
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, [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]