Rawlins Cross is a Canadian Celtic band that formed in 1988 in Atlantic Canada with members from Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Ontario. The band took its name from an intersection in St. John's, Newfoundland. The band was formed in the late 1980s by songwriting brothers Dave Panting (guitar and mandolin) and Geoff Panting (keyboards and accordion) and Ian McKinnon (highland pipes and tin whistle). Since then, Rawlins Cross has been at the vanguard of the fusion of Celtic traditional music with the rhythms of rock