The Outside Track

The Outside Track
The Outside Track
	The Outside Track at the 2009 Goderich Celtic Roots Festival
Background information
Origin	Limerick, Ireland
Genres	Pan Celtic
Years active	2005–present
Members	Mairi Rankin; Teresa Horgan; Fiona Black; Ailie Robertson; Michael Ferrie;
Past members	Aoife Scott; Norah Rendell; Cillian O'Dalaigh; Fiona Black; Ailie Robertson; Ivonne Hernandez;
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]

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

^ 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.
^ Rannie Gillis (16 October 2015). "Two for the price of one in Boisdale - Columnists". Cape Breton Post. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
^ "Festival visiting acts range from Siberia to Canada | The Shetland Times Ltd". Shetlandtimes.co.uk. 14 January 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
^ "Celtic band The Outside Track comes from different places, different grooves". MLive.com. 10 April 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
^ "The Band". The Outside Track. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
^ "The Outside Track | Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland". Tracscotland.org. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
^ David Kidman (7 September 2015). "The Outside Track – Light Up the Dark | Folk Radio UK". Folkradio.co.uk. Retrieved 12 February 2016.

[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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