Tonight, the sixth and last semi final of the Maltese selection for the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest will be held. Six acts will compete to be among the top 20 that will eventually reach the grand final.

The show

The semi final will be held during tonight's edition of the weekly show L-Isfida, hosted by Claudette Pace at the Audiovision TV Studios in Hamrun. The performances will start at around 22:15 CET. Out of the six semi finals, 20 acts will be chosen by televoting and a jury for the grand final.

Update: As usually, the televoting will last until this Saturday, 16:30 CET. The winners will be announced next Wednesday, NOT this Wednesday as we wrote earlier.

Webcast

You can follow the show via webcast here.

The line-up

Composer/lyricist in brackets.

1. Ruth Portelli – Three little words
   (Philip Vella/Gerard James Borg)
2. Roger Tirazona – Silver rain
   (Paul Abela/Joe Julian Farrugia)
3. Jessica Muscat – Fake
   (Philip Vella/Gerard James Borg)
4. Silver Clash – Broken
   (Robert Parde)
   
5. Lawrence Gray – Stories
   (Ray Agius/Godwin Sant)
6. Dorothy Bezzina – Moments
   (Chan Vella/Alexia Schembri)

Your opinion

You can vote for your favourite song out fo the first five semi finals below. After the last song was performed tonight, another poll will be launched for the sixth semi final.

• 1st semi final poll here.
• 2nd semi final poll here.
• 3rd semi final poll here.
• 4th semi final poll here.
• 5th semi final poll here.

In 2009, Malta was represented by Chiara, who finished sixth in the first semi final and 22nd in the grand final with her song What if we.