One of Shetland’s, indeed Scotland’s, finest fiddle players is set to undertake a short solo tour of her home turf on 25 & 26 November 2005.

Jenna Reid, originally from Quarff, but now resident in Glasgow, is probably best known as a prominent member of Shetland group ‘Filska’ and Scottish group ‘Dochas’.

The Shetland visit, promoted by Shetland Arts Trust as part of their music development programme, is in support of her critically acclaimed new solo album ‘With Silver and All’. Throughout the visit she will be accompanied by outstanding Edinburgh based guitarist Kevin MacKenzie, who also recently visited Shetland as a member of the Scottish Guitar Quartet.

To add further to her growing reputation Jenna has also just been nominated in the category of ‘Best Up and Coming Artist’ in the finals of Scottish Traditional Music Awards to be held in the Queens Hall, Edinburgh on the 3rd December. To vote for her, and indeed other Shetland nominees at the awards, you should log onto the BBC website at www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/celticroots  and follow the voting links from there.

Jenna and Kevin will be appearing at Lerwick Town Hall on Friday the 25th November, supported by Malachy Tallack (who will be launching his new album that weekend) and singer / songwriter Marie Williamson from Whalsay and her band. The following evening the Fetlar Hall will be the venue, when support will come from ‘Fullsceilidh Spelemannslag’ and Jillian Isbister.

Shetland Arts Trust music development officer Davie Gardner said “It’s always great when we can welcome back one of our own for gigs on the islands, especially at a time when they are making such a major impact on the national music scene. Jenna’s new album is, for me, one of the best traditional / contemporary music albums released anywhere this year, so the local concerts should be very exciting and show a new musical aspect of Jenna to the one we already know and love”.

Tickets for both concerts, priced £7 and £5, will be available on the door.

For further information or for a photo to accompany this release please contact David Gardner on (01595) 694001.