Jenna Reid

Jenna Reid is a Scottish fiddle player. She has been described as "...the finest fiddler in Scotland of her generation."

Early life She was born and brought up in the village of Quarff, in the Shetland Islands of Scotland She was taught by Tom Anderson and Willie Hunter She graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Scottish traditional music

Career In addition to performing with her own Jenna Reid Band, she played with the Scottish traditional music group Filska (which originally consisted of Jenna, her sister Bethany and her mother Joyce Reid but later included her friend Gemma Wilson ) which performed in France, Canada, the US, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Italy and Ireland. RANT, the Highland Fiddle Band, the Gaelic band Dòchas, Deaf Shepherd, At the request of Aly Bain and Jerry Douglas, she has featured as a guest artist on Transatlantic Sessions 3 & 4.

In 2018, Jenna started working as a freelance broadcaster for the BBC One.

Jenna is married to drummer Iain Sandilands who works at Big Noise (which supports children through music ) in Stirling. They have two children

Discography With Silver And All (2005) No. 1 Scottish Traditional Music from the RSAMD (2007) The Laughing Girl (2008) Escape - The Story of Jan Baalrud and the Shetland Bus (2010 - with Bethany Reid) Morning Moon (2012) Escape (2012) The Quarff Collections (2014) Live in Shetland (2015) Working Hands (2019) Songs from Jenna Reid (2020)