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The Outside Track

The Outside Track

Celtic musical group

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]

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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

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