Jenna Reid

Some­times it seems like every­one in Shet­land plays the fiddle and com­poses tunes for it. Jenna Reid is cer­tainly in that mould — two really good sets with a good vari­ety of tunes: her own, tunes by other Shet­land folk, and tunes from fur­ther afield. Unlike some bands, there were almost equal num­bers of slow tunes and fast ones — some of the slow ones quite lovely. The band included her sis­ter on key­board and 2^nd fiddle, a gui­tar­ist and a bass player. But I find I don’t like unadul­ter­ated fiddle tunes — I’m a words man really.