{{Short description|Scottish record label}} {{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music --> | name = Greentrax Recordings | image = <!-- logo, such as "LABEL-LOGO.jpg" --> | image_size = <!-- size --> | image_alt = <!-- WP:ALT text describing the image --> | caption = <!-- a caption for the image --> | parent = <!-- parent company, such as "Warner Music Group" --> | founded = {{start date|1986}} | founder = Ian Green | fate = <!-- explain the reason of the closing--> | defunct = <!-- year the label dissolved, such as {{end date|1990}} --> | status = <!-- leave blank unless "Inactive" --> | distributor = <!-- distributors, separate with commas or <br /> --> | genre = Scottish traditional music | country = <!-- origin, such as "U.S." or "{{Flag|Turkey}}" --> | location = Cockenzie, Scotland | url = {{URL|http://www.greentrax.com/}} }}
'''Greentrax Recordings''' are a Scottish record label that specialises in Scottish traditional music.
== History == The label was founded in 1986 by former police inspector Ian Green, who played the bagpipes and was responsible for arranging folk music at the police social club.<ref name=lt>{{cite web |url=http://www.livingtradition.co.uk/node/94 |title=Greentrax Recordings |author=Rob Adams |publisher=livingtradition.co.uk |access-date=19 August 2016}}</ref> He was also involved with the magazine ''Sandy Bell's Broadsheet''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/city-pubs-were-jam-packed-with-folk-2461904|title=City pubs were jam packed with folk |publisher=scotsman.com |access-date=4 April 2025}}</ref> Prior to his retirement, Green had been selling an increasing number of records at the Edinburgh Folk Club, at festivals, and via his Discount Folk Records mail order service, and continued this on retiring. He invested some of his pension into setting up the label, and the name came from a competition run by BBC Radio Scotland.<ref name=lt/>
On 11 March 2024, Greentrax announced that its founder, Ian Green, had died at the age of 90.
==Artists== The Greentrax catalogue include releases by Gordon Duncan, RURA, Barbara Dickson, The McCalmans, Paul McKenna Band, Jean Redpath, Catherine-Ann MacPhee, Adam McNaughton, Archie Fisher, Aly Bain, Brian McNeill, Judy Small, Shooglenifty, Tony McManus, Fiddlers' Bid, Chris Stout, Willie Hunter & Violet Tulloch, Bodega, Peerie Willie Johnson, Shoormal, Ceilidh Minogue, Dick Gaughan, The Whistlebinkies, The Poozies and the Peatbog Faeries.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greentrax.com/music/catalogue |title=Full Greentrax Catalogue by Category |publisher=greentrax.com |access-date=2 June 2021}}</ref>
==See also== * Lists of record labels
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Official website|http://www.greentrax.com/}}
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Category:Scottish record labels Category:Record labels established in 1986 Category:1986 establishments in Scotland