"What a beautiful recording Jenna has made!  I'm a huge fan of Shetland and Scottish fiddling, and Jenna brings a warmth of tone and feeling to her music; a spirit of an earlier, romantic time to her air playing, and a dash of youth to her reel, jig and hornpipe playing.  She's as impressive a young player as I've heard, and one of the nicest people". Liz Carroll

Jenna Reid is a swiftly rising star in the high-flying, fast-paced, and very lively world of Scottish fiddle music. This disc gives an excellent cross-section of just why she's gained such notice. A distinctive touch, a fair for phrasing that really supports the tunes, willingness to attack when needed, and the ability to back off when that's needed, too - no wonder she's gained such notice. She's no slouch as a tune writer, either, as witnessed by the two original tunes in the "50th Fling" set and "The Summer Island March." Those who like the approaches of Natalie MacMaster and Hanneke Cassel should give Reid a listen....
KD.. Dirty Linen April/May 2006.

'Up front is the fiddle playing of the beautiful Jenna Reid. Her fast,flawless fiddle is amongst the best I've heard and she's a charasmatic and striking performer'. Feb 06, Dochas @ Graffam Hall, West Sussex. Roots Around the World Festival. www.artistsandmakers.com

'Jenna has a stunning fiddle style as well as a great front cover! Winner of the 'Up & Coming Artist' at the Scots Trad Music Awards in December 2005, Jenns'a an amazing Shetland fiddler, flinging her flings and spinning her slow airs with grace and beauty. Taught by Tom Andrerson and Willie Hunter, she's got great tone and rhythm. This is her first solo album, though she's an experienced player with the Shetland quartete Filska, Highland band Dochas and more recently with Deaf Shepherd. This CD has a fine collection of tunes from Shetland and Scotland, including several of her own tunes, with a couple from Engand, Cape Breton Breton and Sweden thrown in for luck! Susuan Mallet, Fiddle On Magazine Issue 19 2006

January 2006
'Young, gorgeous and inordinately talented, utterly captivated the audience from start to finish'
Sue Wilson The Scotsman, The Piping Centre Celtic Connections 2006

"With Silver & All Shetland fiddler Jenna Reid has firmly established her position as one of our best young players, with her performance with Filska, Dochas, Deaf Shepherd and the recent Young Trad Tour, and this album is a fine reflection of her solo playing. That music includes some of her own tunes, plenty of Shetland and some classics. Our opinions are often influenced by how we are used to hearing a tune, so for me Princess Beatrice tripped along a bit smartish and The Hurricane was a playful breeze - but contrarily I found a novel treatment of The Newcastle Hornpipe with Harris Playfair's piano harmonies giving a tasteful Scott Joplin feel to the tune, quite captivating. There's a nice Swedish set, and of cource the slow airs - the always-welcome Hector the Hero, Willie Hunter's The Love o' the Isles and Ronnie Jamieson's The Auld Noost, all beautifully played."
The Scottish Fiddlers' Calendar: Reviewed by Eric Allen.

"The photographers were out in force here. I can't think why, really. There's more, much more than photogenic quality going on, though, with Julie Fowlis and Jenna Reid. The pair play together in the largely Gaelic music group Dochas, but their respective solo careers are taking off, too, and their individual sets here fully endorsed their popularity.
Reid's selection of tunes from the Scandinavian countries, the north-east of both Scotland and England and her native Shetland illustrated not only her assurance in a variety of tempos but also an attention to tone production that makes her slow airs, especially, such an attractive feature of her playing.
Her awareness of dynamics also ensures that tunes really come alive and with her musicians – sister Bethany (piano and fiddle), Kevin Mackenzie (guitar) and Duncan Lyall (double bass) – lending apposite support, she pulled off speedster showcases such as The Hurricane with exciting aplomb."
Rob Adams, (The Herald) The Piping Centre Celtic Connections 2006

"The near-capacity audience was treated to a programme showcasing the best of both the Shetland and Gaelic traditions with a varied programme of jig and reel sets and haunting Gaelic song.
Fiddler Jenna Reid from Shetland (see top picture) opened the evening, together with the diverse talents of Duncan Lyall on bass, Kevin Mackenzie on guitar and Jenna’s own sister Bethany on fiddle and piano. She opened with a set of jigs, beginning with ‘The 50th Fling’ and proceeding onto a set of tunes which Jenna gathered herself from the Summer Island in Sweden.
This was followed by an exquisite arrangement of ‘Hector the Hero’, with Kevin Mackenzie on a beautifully sympathetic accompaniment which truly allowed the melody to shine. Jenna is obviously a master of her art, and her passion for the tradition is clearly evident in the way in which she communicates with her audience."
Fiona MacKenzie, Highlands and Islands Arts Journal (www.hi-arts.co.uk)

December 2005
"Jenna Reid takes a stunning picture; she also plays a stunning fiddle. On her latest album, With Silver & All, you can check out these two statements, and I'll bet you'll endorse both. The collection starts with a rousing set whose title track celebrates her grandparents golden wedding, and builds up from there. She is more than ably accompanied by Harris Playfair, Kevin MacKenzie, Duncan Lyall and Paul Jennings. Among other gems is a truly iridescent album are Scott Skinner's "Hector the Hero" written to commemorate General Hector Macdonald; tunes by the late great Willie Hunter; and "The Newcastle Hornpipe " composed by Dundonian exile James Hill, who also wrote "The High Level Hornpipe". And of course the title track too, a Norwegian air called "Med Solje og Stas" Alasdair Maclean in The Scots Magazine

August 6th 2005
"Shetlander Jenna Reid has been, arguably, the young fiddler to look out for in Scotland over the past few years and this collection has all the qualities expected from her. Working in two broad settings - Harris Playfair's piano accompaniments alternated with Kevin Mackenzie's guitar and occasional percussion, double bass and her own accordion - Reid plays the slow airs with lovely, heart-felt expression and delivers her marches, hornpies and reels with sweetly moving vigour and a real sense of enjoyment. It's all of a piece, with Mackenzie showing that an Edinburgh laddie can master Shetland's own swing style, but The Hurricane, where Playfair eggs her on to the max and sparks really begin to fly, is the clinching example of Reid's extravagant gifts." Rob Adams (The Herald) ****

4 September 2005
“With the pink disc and glam sleeve, it could be one of those young Cape Breton fiddle divas. But no, it's one of our own. One of Shetland's Filska fiddlers, Reid is striking out on her own here, supported by ace musicians such as the astonishing pianist Harris Playfair and the ubiquitous Kevin MacKenzie on guitars. The clean double-stopped Scandinavian sweep of the bow runs through Reid's stylish and varied playing, as in the rare Swedish and bridal marches. But her fleet fingers also run round effortless reels and hornpipes, and only occasionally sit back inot an air such as the beautiful final tune, Ronnie Jamieson's Auld Noost - steeped in the salty sweet Shetland tradition“................Norman Chalmers (Scotland on Sunday)

2nd September 2005
“Never mind the glam and moody shots which accompany Reid’s first solo CD. It is the music which impresses as Reid takes her experience as a fiddler for Filska, Deaf Shepherd and Dochas and puts it to good use to put herself in the spot-light. While Dochas has a strong Gaelic influence and Deaf Shepherd looks to the north-east, Reid’s own album is steeped in Shetland fiddle lore and, like any good Shetlander, Reid is as happy interpreting a brace of Scandinavian melodies as she is tackling Scott Skinner’s ubiquitous, but lovely, ‘Hector the Hero’. Reid’s own compositions can hold their own in such company and she can cut a dash when she wants to, but the real treat comes at the end with her sensitive reading of the much played slow air, ‘Auld Noost’.” Calum Macleod Inverness Courier

"Jenna Reid, from Shetland...already a veteran of family band, Filska and is shaping up as one of her generations very finest fiddlers, combining fire and taste in equal measure"
- Brian Miller, 'Dochas and Michael McGoldrick @ The Queens Hall, Edinburgh April 2005

CD Review
A Thousand Miles Away

"It's hard to believe that Filska has slipped under the radar of the American public consciousness for so long. The Shetland Islands foursome had already compiled an impressive scrapbook of BBC appearances and prestigious festivals when this record was made, almost a decade after its 1994 inception. But given their youthful ages - Jenna Reid (fiddle/accordion/vocals) is only 23 - it all makes perfect sense. Between the three lasses and the one lad, the blue-ribbon fiddling, chord -outlining piano, gracefully gliding accordion stylings, and dead-on-rhythm guitar playing all roll up into breath-steakling arrangements (Coolie's, Tom's Return) that are lighter than air. A couple of selections find guitarist Andrew Tulloch nimbly flat-picking in parallel with the accordion/fiddle-fueled melody lines. A few others are tender songs (A Thousand Miles Away, Sun Moon and Stars) albeit with a more contemporary pop-ish bent, but, like the instrumentals, they too stand as beautiful creatures. Overall a brilliant record"
.....DW Dirty Linen, The magazine of folk and world music. USA April/May 05. www.dirtylinen.com

"Filska...scintilating set of instrumentals - the highlight of the evening.  Their focus on fiddle supplied by Jenna Reid, Gemma Wilson and Bethany Reid, who doubled on keyboards - with Andrew Tulloch's driving guitar gave their sound a streamlined core, delivered with intense energy and precision"
- Kenny Mathieson, The Scotsman (Filska's performance at Showcase Scotland 2005)

"...They look cool. No one exemplifies this more than Shetland fiddler Jenna Reid, who marries an easy-on-the-eye appearance with instrumental mastery and real feeling for her hurtling, intricate, swinging, music. Her feature with fellow Shetlander Harris Playfair...was quite simply electric.
- Rob Adams, The Herald

"Joyce Reid song, 'Sun Moon & Stars' beautifully delivered by Jenna...a wonderful vocal debut"
- Davy Gardner, Shetland Music Development Officer

"An absolutely stunning return by any standard"
- Davy Gardner, Shetland Music Development Officer

"....explosive fiddle playing from Fiddler Jenna Reid..." Final of BBC Young Scottish Traditional Musician of the Year 2004
- Rob Adams, The Herald