High-energy jive and swing, choral music and children’s fun – it’s all packed into the last weekend of this year’s Canterbury Festival.

On Friday, November 4, French chanteuse La Poule Plombée invites the audience into her world of tragedy, melody and butchery at the Canterbury Festival Spiegeltent at the Kingsmead Car Park.

Making a return visit to the festival, accompanied by her hen-pecked pianist Mumu, she will tell darkly comic tales of obsession, jealousy and lost love from 7pm.

Also on Friday, a Mass in Blue takes place at Canterbury Cathedral Crypt at 7.30pm, with St Martin’s Voices and the Will Todd Ensemble, plus jazz guest singer Tina May and the Canterbury Christ Church University Chamber Choir, featuring jazz-infused music and a new work, Fire of Love.

The evening is topped off with the Jive Aces making sure the Spiegeltent is jumping from 9.30pm with their high-energy stage show ensuring visitors won’t be able to stay off the dance floor.

On Saturday, November 5 it’s the children’s turn, with Baby Loves Disco inside the Spiegeltent from 2pm, when the original family dance party returns for its fourth year, with feel-good chart floor fillers and nostalgic classics. With face painting, balloons, a dress-up area and selfie booth, plus a licensed bar for parents, it promises two hours of dance floor fun and giveaways too.

Later in the evening at 7.30pm, Canterbury Cathedral Nave is the venue for a concert by Canterbury Choral Society, CCS Youth Choir and English Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Richard Cooke, with soloists Mary Bevan, Rufus Müller and David Shipley.

The farewell finale is provided by Geno Washington in the Spiegeltent at 8.30pm, with a blistering set of soul, blues and R&B classics to get everyone up on their feet. Stay on afterwards to say farewell to the Spiegeltent, with the house DJ spinning some discs.

For details and to book tickets, visit canterburyfestival.co.uk or call 01227 787787.

For reviews on many of the shows this year, visit kentonline.co.uk/whats-on