The Outside Track is a Pan Celtic group that performs Scots, Irish and

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songs and

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. 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

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, as well as Mairi Rankin, a relative of the Rankin family from Mabou, Cape Breton. As a group they won ‘Best Group’ in the 2012 LiveIreland Music Award, 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.

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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