The Outside Track

The Outside Track
Origin	Limerick, Ireland
Genres	Pan Celtic
Years active	2005-present
Members	Mairi Rankin, Norah Rendell, Cillian O'Dalaigh, Fiona Black, Ailie Robertson, Ivonne Hernandez
Past members	Aoife Scott [1][2]

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 a group they won ‘Best Group’ in the 2012 LiveIreland Music Award,^[5] 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.^[6]

Discography

• 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 2016-02-12.
2. Rannie Gillis (2015-10-16). "Two for the price of one in Boisdale - Columnists". Cape Breton Post. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
3. "Festival visiting acts range from Siberia to Canada | The Shetland Times Ltd". Shetlandtimes.co.uk. 2016-01-14. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
4. "Celtic band The Outside Track comes from different places, different grooves". MLive.com. 2012-04-10. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
5. "The Outside Track | Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland". Tracscotland.org. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
6. David Kidman (2015-09-07). "The Outside Track – Light Up the Dark | Folk Radio UK". Folkradio.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-02-12.