Celtic sound at fest
The group The Outside Track will present its Celtic sound at the Mission Folk Music Festival at Fraser River Heritage Park July 24-26.
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Updated: July 17, 2009 2:29 PM
It’s a good thing that Steveston-raised musician, Norah Rendell is sick of being the foreigner in her five-piece pan-Celtic band. After four years of touring in the UK, Germany, France and the States with The Outside Track, Rendell is finally bringing the Scottish and Irish members of the band back to Canada for the first time ever for a three -week tour of B.C. and Ontario.
Rendell left Vancouver in 2005 to complete a prestigious Masters degree in traditional Irish music at the University of Limerick. Within weeks of arrival in Ireland, seeds of The Outside Track’s cutting edge music were planted when she sat down and shared tunes with harpist, Ailie Robertson and accordionist, Fiona Back.
All members of The Outside Track are instrumentalists, arrangers and composers in their own right. Since meeting in Limerick in 2005, their sound has developed into a sonic fusion of harp, guitar and accordion bass accompaniment coupled with intricate interplay between fiddle, flute and harmony vocals.
The Outside Track is quickly earning themselves a reputation as one of the most exciting new bands on the traditional music scene, made even more exciting this summer by the addition of Cape Breton fiddler and step-dancer, Mairi Rankin.
The Outside Track perform at the Mission Folk Music Festival, July 24-26 at Fraser River Heritage Park.
Tickets and information are available at www.missionfolkmusicfestival.ca or 604-826-5937.
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