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

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and

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songs and stepdance. Members of the group include Ailie Robertson who has won a LiveIreland Music Award and was a

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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 The Rankin Family (originally known as The Rankins) are a Canadian musical family group from Mabou, Nova Scotia. The group has won many Canadian music awards, including 15 East Coast Music Awards, six Juno Awards, four SOCAN Awards, three Canadian ...

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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