Hailing from Shetland, Jenna is undoubtedly one of the finest fiddle players ever to grace the traditional music scene. She was nominated as ‘Best Instrumentalist’ at the 2007 Scots Trad Awards. ‘The Shetland Bus’ is a brand new suite of music composed by Jenna and her sister Bethany to commemorate the incredible story Jan Baalsrud. The twenty-six year old was the sole survivor of the vessel, ‘Braatholm’ Jan and his crew of 11 men left Shetland in 1943 on route to Norway, where they planned to join the fight for freedom in their Nazis occupied homeland…
Playing with Cormac Cannon (uileann pipes) on Pipes & Fiddle Night
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