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
The Outside Track at the 2009 Goderich Celtic Roots Festival
Background information
Origin	Limerick, Ireland
Genres	Pan Celtic
Years active	2005 (2005)-present
Members	Mairi Rankin, Teresa Horgan, Fiona Black, Ailie Robertson, Michael Ferrie
Past members	Aoife Scott ,[1][2] Norah Rendell, Cillian O'Dalaigh, Fiona Black, Ailie Robertson, Ivonne Hernandez
Website	http://www.theoutsidetrack.com

Discography

• Rise Up (2018)
• Light up the Dark (2015)
• Flash Company (2013)
• The Mountain Road (2012)
• Curious Things Given Wings (2010)
• Self-Titled (2007)

References