"[1] She was born and brought up in the village of Quarff, in the Shetland Islands of Scotland[2][3] and found a fiddle in her grandmother's attic when she was nine years old and started to play it.

[5] She graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Scottish traditional music[4] where she also sang and played the piano accordion and the piano[5] (which she learnt from her teacher Walter Blair[6]).

In addition to performing with her own Jenna Reid Band,[3] she played with the Scottish traditional music group Filska (which originally consisted of Jenna, her sister Bethany and her mother Joyce Reid[7] but later included her friend Gemma Wilson[8]) which performed in France, Canada, the US, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Italy and Ireland.

[14] At the request of Aly Bain and Jerry Douglas, she has featured as a guest artist on Transatlantic Sessions 3 & 4.

[16] Jenna is married to drummer Iain Sandilands who works at Big Noise (which supports children through music[17]) in Stirling.