Jenna Reid

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| birth_place = Quarff, Shetland, Scotland

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| genre = Traditional

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| instrument = Fiddle

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| associated_acts = Filska, Dòchas, Highland Fiddle Band, Deaf Shepherd, RANT, Blazin' Fiddles

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Jenna Reid is a Scottish fiddle player who has been described as "...the finest fiddler in Scotland of her generation."{{Cite web|last=Adams|first=Rob|date=8 May 2008|title=Jenna Reid - The sound of Shetland's bow belle|url=http://www.robadamsjournalist.com/index.asp?pageid=590297|access-date=2020-09-07|website=Rob Adams Journalist}} She was born and brought up in the village of Quarff, in the Shetland Islands of Scotland{{Cite web|url=http://www.jennaandbethanyreid.co.uk/about/|title=About Jenna and Bethany Reid|date=2016|website=Jenna and Bethany Reid|language=en-US|access-date=2016-05-26|archive-date=4 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120904003425/http://www.jennaandbethanyreid.co.uk/about/|url-status=dead}} and found a fiddle in her grandmother's attic when she was nine years old and started to play it.{{Cite web|url=http://www.dewarawards.org/awardees/awardees-2007/jenna-reid|title=Dewar Awards - Jenna Reid 2007|website=Dewar Awards, Scottish Executive|access-date=2016-05-24}} She was taught by Tom Anderson and Willie Hunter and also studied the classical piano.{{Cite web|title=Jenna Reid|url=http://worldmusiccentral.org/artists/artist_page.php?id=3331|access-date=2016-05-27|website=World Music Central|archive-date=29 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629160401/http://worldmusiccentral.org/artists/artist_page.php?id=3331|url-status=dead}} She graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Scottish traditional music where she also sang and played the piano accordion and the piano (which she learnt from her teacher Walter Blair{{Cite web|date=22 December 2019|title=Jenna Reid: 10 Things That Changed My Life|url=https://www.thenational.scot/news/18116882.jenna-reid-10-things-changed-life/|access-date=2020-09-07|website=The National|language=en}}).

In addition to performing with her own Jenna Reid Band,{{Cite web|url=http://www.mareel.org/listen/events/ff2014-jenna-bethany-reid/|title=Fiddle Frenzy 2014 Opening Concert|date=2014-08-03|website=Mareel|publisher=Shetland Arts Development Agency|access-date=2016-05-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617050825/http://www.mareel.org/listen/events/ff2014-jenna-bethany-reid/|archive-date=17 June 2016|url-status=dead}} she played with the Scottish traditional music group Filska (which originally consisted of Jenna, her sister Bethany and her mother Joyce Reid{{Cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/filska-mn0002305992|title=Filska - Biography & History|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=2016-05-24}} but later included her friend Gemma Wilson{{Cite web|last=Romero|first=Angel|date=25 June 2017|title=Artist Profiles: Jenna Reid|url=https://worldmusiccentral.org/2017/06/25/artist-profiles-jenna-reid/|access-date=2020-09-07|website=World Music Central|language=en-US}}) which performed in France, Canada, the US, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Italy and Ireland. She and Filska represented Scotland by playing at the Walt Disney World Millennium Celebrations at the Epcot Centre, Florida and they also played at Scotland's Millennium celebrationss.

She also played with Blazin' Fiddles{{Cite web|url=http://www.blazinfiddles.com/band/|title=Blazin' Fiddles - The Band|website=Blazin' Fiddles|date= 2016|access-date=2016-05-26}} RANT,{{Cite web|url=http://www.rantfiddles.com/band/|title=The Band - RANT|website=RANT - Scotland's chamber-folk quartet|language=en-GB|access-date=2016-05-26|archive-date=18 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181018122815/http://www.rantfiddles.com/band/|url-status=dead}} the Highland Fiddle Band,{{Cite web|url=http://www.perthshireamber.com/index.php/test/general/artists/139-jenna-reid|title=Jenna Reid|website=Perthshire Amber|access-date=2016-05-25}}{{Dead link|date=October 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} the Gaelic band Dòchas,{{cite web|url=http://www.filska.co.uk/biog.htm |title=Filska biography of band members |publisher=The official web page of the Band Filska |accessdate=27 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150504140423/http://filska.co.uk/biog.htm |archivedate= 4 May 2015 }}{{cite web|url= http://dochas.co.uk/biogs/jenna.htm|title= Dòchas - biography of Jenna Reid|publisher= Dòchas - The Official Site of the band, traditional music from the highlands and Islands of Scotland and Ireland|accessdate= 26 May 2016|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160408153426/http://dochas.co.uk/biogs/jenna.htm|archive-date= 8 April 2016|url-status= dead}} Deaf Shepherd, Fiddler's Bid, Vital Signs, Celtic Feet and McFalls Chamber.{{Cite web|last=Adams|first=Rob|date=16 January 2019|title=Jenna Reid on launching her debut album Working Hands at Celtic Connections|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/17359124.jenna-reid-launching-album-working-hands-celtic-connections/|access-date=2020-09-07|website=Herald Scotland|language=en}} At the request of Aly Bain and Jerry Douglas, she has featured as a guest artist on Transatlantic Sessions 3 & 4. She played on the soundtrack of the film Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle.File:Filska Edinburgh Festival 2004 006.jpg

She was awarded the "Shetland Young Fiddler of the Year" prize in 1995 when she was 14 years old and was in the final of the "Young Scottish Traditional Musician of the Year" competition in 2004. In 2005 Jenna won "Best Up and Coming Artist" at the Scots Trad Music Awards. In 2007 she was nominated for "Best Instrumentalist" and was awarded the "Dewar Arts Award."

Jenna and her sister Bethany were curators for the Shetland Fiddle Frenzy festival in 2013, 2014 and 2015.{{Cite web|url=http://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2015/08/03/fiddle-frenzy-underway|title=Fiddle Frenzy under way|last=Guest|first=Adam|date=2015-08-03|website=The Shetland Times|access-date=2016-05-25}}

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

In 2019 she won the PRS Traditional Composer of the Year Award at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards and also her band Blazin Fiddles won the Folk Band of the Year award.{{Cite web|last=Bemrose|first=Bekki|date=11 February 2020|title=Interview: Jenna Reid|url=https://www.prsformusic.com/m-magazine/features/interview-jenna-reid/|access-date=2020-09-07|website=PRS For Music|language=en}}

Jenna is married to drummer Iain Sandilands who works at Big Noise (which supports children through music{{Cite web|date=2020|title=Big Noise|url=https://www.makeabignoise.org.uk/big-noise/|access-date=2020-09-07|website=Make a Big Noise}}) in Stirling. They have two children a boy and a girl.{{Cite web|last=Reid|first=Jenna|date=8 July 2020|title=My Reflections on Lockdown|url=https://tracscotland.org/blog/my-reflections-on-lockdown-by-jenna-reid/|access-date=2020-09-07|website=TRACS - Traditional Arts Culture Scotland|language=en-GB}}