From the album 'Idiom' recorded in Orkney Islands, N Scotland 2011 GEO SOUND RECORDS Featuring Jennifer Wrigley FIDDLE, Hazel Wrigley GUITAR & PIANO and friends

'Shetland Pony Shuffle' Composed J Wrigley, Arranged J & H Wrigley, COPYRIGHT GEO SOUND PUBLISHING - Anyone who's been on a Shetland pony will know that they can manoeuvre forward, backward and sideways all at the same time.

04 Shetland Pony Shuffle

From the album 'Idiom' recorded in Orkney Islands, N Scotland 2011 GEO SOUND RECORDS Featuring Jennifer Wrigley FIDDLE, Hazel Wrigley GUITAR & PIANO and friends

'Magnus' Polska' Composed J Wrigley, Arranged J & H Wrigley, COPYRIGHT GEO SOUND PUBLISHING - This tune was written for two peedie boys, Magnus Bolton and Magnus Melin.  The tune was performed and danced to at the St Magnus Festival in the St Magnus Cathedral - hence Magnus' Polksa.


12 Magnus' Polska

From the album 'Idiom' recorded in Orkney Islands, N Scotland 2011 GEO SOUND RECORDS Featuring Jennifer Wrigley FIDDLE, Hazel Wrigley GUITAR & PIANO and friends

'Partans in the Creel & Chappin' at the Door' Composed Aly Windwick, Arranged J & H Wrigley, COPYRIGHT GEO SOUND PUBLISHING - 

02 Partans

HULDRELAND - The Third Duo Release for The Wrigley Sisters

ROCK AND REEL - 'Jennifer and Hazel Wrigley have spread the gospel of Orkney fiddle music far and wide..... 'Huldreland' is full of surprises'.
This third album is truly a masterpiece and was voted in the 10 ten albums of the year by Folk Roots mag.  Features classics like ‘The Ba’ Rag, Eynhallow Soond and Stoned Giants’.

Eynhallow Soond The Halloween Fli

Bison Reel   The 4 X 4 To Penrith

DANCING FINGERS ‘A genuine wee pearl of an album’

Recorded after school and at weekends from the ages of 13 to 16 years; this album catapulted the girls into the music scene, sparking their journey to become world renowned musicians.

The Shelburne Reel

Na Spioradan Briste (The Broken S

Miss Sarah MacFadyen   Farewell T

01 Orcadia Orkneyites

Pinch Of Snuff

05 Listen To The Mockingbird

10 The Deerness Mermaid The Watchman

5 Reels

Skyran

Dingieshowe Dancers

04 The Dingeshowe Dancers

Bison Reel Slow - Fast Guitar Part

Clumsy Lover

Fast and slow practice track for fiddle class to learn by ear

Jig in D

Ingi Jolly singing the Robert Thompson song along with Hullion at an Orcadian Summer Concert at The Reel in August 2018

Ingi Jolly 'Waltzes For Dreamers'

Written by Jennifer Wrigley for The Orkney Mens Shed

Compliments to Orkney Mens Shed

This C Accompanies the Slow Session book compiled by Karen Tweed and Hazel rigley

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The Pierview Polka

Sleepie Laddie

The White House Mazurka

The Butterfly

Queens Four, Skye And Islay

the wrigley sisters
COMBINING mastery with mischief, and tradition with modernity, Jennifer and Hazel Wrigley, the internationally acclaimed fiddle and guitar duo from the Orkney Islands, have a magical new album to perform.

Idiom is a sparkling blend of traditional, contemporary and original material, invigorated with jazz, blues and ragtime flavours. Like an Orkney sunrise, Idiom bursts with light, colour and outrageous and dizzying energy. Idiom has woken the timeless standing stones of Orkney and made them dance again. Idiom reflects a confidence and maturity honed from years of touring and playing.

Wrigley and the Reel is a 4 to 6 piece band where Jennifer and Hazel are joined by 'The Reel'; comprising of outstanding 
musicians who are regular visitors to the sessions at The Reel in Orkney with boundless musical dexterity and vitality, Orcadian wit and good fun!

After years of touring, the Wrigley Sisters returned to Orkney and in 2004 set up ‘The Reel’: predominantly a music school but also encompassing a cafe & bar, music shop, venue and exhibition space. The school now has in excess of 600 students, allowing the lasses to 'put something back into Orkney.'

Hailing from Orkney, the twin sisters began performing together - Jennifer on fiddle and Hazel on piano and guitar – when they were 8.  Their universal audience appeal reflects both the calibre of their music and the effervescent charm of their 
performances.

Their recorded output - from their 1991 debut Dancing Fingers recorded between the age of 13 and 16 years, its successor The Watch Stone (1994), third album Huldreland, fourth album Mither 0' The Sea, fifth album Skyran and their sixth and most recent release Idiom - reveals their assurance and sophistication and reaffirms their international prominence.


Jennifer and Hazel have undertaken three world tours, visited forty seven countries (including fifteen trans-Atlantic trips) and appeared in countless television and radio productions. They have undertaken many musical and education related initiatives and collaborations; several with internationally renowned artists such as Evelyn Glennie.  In addition they have also undertaken and delivered extensive teaching and music workshop initiatives throughout the world.  The sisters were extensively involved in 
'Live Music Now' - a tutorial initiative whose patrons are Yehudi Menuhin and Prince Charles.

Jennifer and Hazel have won a number of national and international awards, with Jennifer Wrigley herself a past winner of the BBC Young Tradition Award, the UK's premier accolade for emerging folk music talent.

The sisters are unquestionably two of the highest profile cultural and creative arts 'ambassadors' to emanate from Orkney and are clearly appreciated as such within their home community.

Wrigley Sisters

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