Alice Zawadzki presents a unique show and musical collective, curated and assembled for the final concert night of this year's watford Jazz Junction Festival.

Acclaimed violinist, composer and singer Alice Zawadzki presents a unique exploration of musical junctions through the stories of folklore, alongside a bespoke band assembled especially for the final concert night of this year's festival.

Invented Folklore

Who were the ordinary mortals who stoked the imagination of febrile storytellers, from the Frog Prince to Cinderella? Who would those people be in today's world? Would we recognise them?

Curated and performed by Alice Zawadzki, Invented Folklore brings us vignettes that re-imagine the world of the fairy tale, crashing into the Pumphouse Theatre for one very special night.

Alice invites a stellar line-up of musicians to re-tell our beloved stories and invent new ones, including saxophonist and BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year Xhosa Cole, drummer for Go Go Penguin and Mulatu Astatke Jon Scott, and boundary blurring artist Simon Roth, who in the spirit of invention, brings a completely new and unique instrument of his own making, The Magic Box, which has to be heard to be believed.

The Wolf of Watford sits alongside Goldilocks and the Three Hipsters, whilst the Sleeping Beauty of Berkhamsted dreams of the Ugly Duckling of Boreham Wood. Baba Yaga of Potter's Bar looks on and wonders when the bar will re-open. From the absurd to the blissful, the silly to the sublime, suburbaners expect your stories to be immortalised forever!