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The 34th edition of L-Għanja tal-Poplu was held on Saturday 28 November 2009 at the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Phoenicia in Floriana.

The Organizing Committee decided that from this edition onwards, songs in the final are played live with live instruments on stage.

Though the festival is organized by a voluntary committee, it was decided that all profits are to be given to the Richmond Foundation.

The Festival was also showen on television.

13 songs were chosen for the Final.

Tickets at €10 were available from the Y.T.C. 227 Merchants' Street, Valletta.

Finalists

Here are the 13 Songs featured in the final:-

No	Singers	Songs	Lyricist	Composer
01	Angèle Cristina	Tellerita	Angele Cristina	Angele Cristina
02	X-Tend	Int Dak Li Int	Charles Dalli	Charles Dalli
03	Justin Galea & Antonio Olivari	Attent	Antonio Olivari	Antonio Olivari
04	Conerstone	Nolfoq	Mark Pellicano	Kurstein Sant
05	Anabel Spiteri	Arloġġ Bla Idejn	Paul Ellul	Mark Spiteri Lucas
06	Geordie Debono	Pjaga Jew Fjamma?	Christopher Azzopardi	Geordie Debono
07	Frank O‘Neill & Christabelle Curmi	Irrid Ngħix il-Poeżija	Frank O‘Neill	Frank O‘Neill
08	His Project Band	Leħen Ġo Qalbek	Mark Agius	Mark Agius
09	X-Tend	Niċċelebraw Il-Festa	Charles Dalli	Charles Dalli
10	Sandro Cassar	Musbieħ Ta’ Tama	Sandro Cassar	Augusto Cardinali
11	Corazon Mizzi & Walter Micallef	Tal-Aħħar	Corazon Mizzi	Corazon Mizzi
12	Teddie Zammit	Agħtuni Ċans	Teddie Zammit	Teddie Zammit
13	Adriano Tabone	Bi Tbissima	Giovann Attard	Augusto Cardinali
14	X-Tend	Niċċelebraw Il-Festa	Charles Dalli	Charles Dalli

Organizing Committee

Organizer: Maurice Mifsud Fr.

Chairman:Carmelo Schembri

Secretary: Alexia Conti

PRO: Noel D'Amato

Judges

The judges during the live show were:

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Special Guest

The interval act as people awaited the final results was offered entertainment by [[ ]], [[ ]], [[ ]]

Recognition

The committee has always been proud to recognise the talent of local artists and therefore, a special award was given to Doreen Galea and with her son Mro.Dominic Galea sings some song from her new cd album ‘Ommi’ a compilation of 12 songs written by Maltese poet, include the first poet Kantilena by Pietru Caxaru which take us back around 1450. The music of this new songs was all composed by Dominic Galea.

Another gift was given to Martin Vella a singer and for many years presented and produced a radio program named Maltin Biss on the National Radio Station.

The committee have always put a lot of emphasis on the language and therefore, lyrics are always of the essence in this competition and this was seen within the choice of the jury for the evening, composed of scholars within the linguistics and literary field. The gifts where presented by Dolores Gauci a rappresented of the Richmond Foundation.

Winners Finalist

Here are the Winning Songs featured in the final:-

No	Song	Performer	Lyricist	Composer
01	Tal-Aħħar	Corazon Mizzi & Walter Micallef	Corazon Mizzi	Corazon Mizzi
02	Irrid Ngħix il-Poeżija	Frank O’Neill & Christabelle Curmi	Frank O’Neill	Frank O’Neill
03	Attent	Justin Galea	Antonio Olivari D’Emanuele	Antonio Olivari D’Emanuele

For the Winner it takes a Trophy for one year, besides, for the first place a Trophy and Lm 300, for the second place a Trophy and Lm 200, and for the third place a Trophy and Lm 100.

Other Winners

For Best Social Theme:
For Best Arragment:
For Best Interpretation:

External links

L-Għanja tal-Poplu - Official website

L-Għanja tal-Poplu Festival Editions
* 1970s: 01 (1973) - 02 (1974) - 03 (1975) - 04 (1976) - 05 (1977) - 06 (1978) - 07 (1979)
* 1980s: 08 (1980) - 09 (1981) - 10 (1982) - 11 (1983) - 12 (1984) - 13 (1985) - 14 (1986) - 15 (1987) 
* 1990s: 16 (1990) - 17 (1992) - 18 (1993) - 19 (1994) - 20 (1995) - 21 (1996) - 22 (1997) - 23 (1998) - 24 (1999)
* 2000s: 25 (2000) - 26 (2001) - 27 (2002) - 28 (2003) - 29 (2004) - 30 (2005) - 31 (2006) - 32 (2007) - 33 (2008) - 34 (2009)
* 2010s: 35 (2010) - 36 (2012) - 37 (2013) - 38 (2014) - 39 (2015) - 40 (2016) - 41 (2017) - 42 (2018) - 43 (2019)
* 2020s: 44 (2020) - 45 (2021) - 46 (2022) - 47 (2023)

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-The '''34th edition''' of [[L-Għanja tal-Poplu]] was held on Saturday 28 November,  2009 at the [[Grand Ballroom]] of the [[Hotel Phoenicia]] in [[Floriana]].
+The '''34th edition''' of [[L-Għanja tal-Poplu]] was held on Saturday 28 November 2009 at the [[Grand Ballroom]] of the [[Hotel Phoenicia]] in [[Floriana]].
-From this Edition The Organizing Committee that from this Edition, All the participant must sing the song with a grupp of musician playing live evey song on the stage.
+The Organizing Committee decided that from this edition onwards, songs in the final are played live with live instruments on stage.
-This year the Festival profits from tickets, cd and program pubblication and sponsors will give to the [[Richmond Foundation]].
+Though the festival is organized by a voluntary committee, it was decided that all profits are to be given to the [[Richmond Foundation]].
-The L-Għanja tal-Poplu every year was held by a voluntary Committee and got more espensive then profit. And till the passed twenty years the festival was held by the finally gift by [[Youth Travel Circle]] organized by Fr. Maurice Mifsud.
 The Festival was also showen on television.
-It was submited a total of [[ ? ]] orginal songs which was choose by a panel of Jury’s [[ ? ]] choose the 13 songs which passed for the Final.
+songs were chosen for the Final.
-Tickets at € 10 were available from the Y.T.C. 227 Merchants' Street, Valletta.
+Tickets at €10 were available from the Y.T.C. 227 Merchants' Street, Valletta.
-For this Editon also was published a Cd and a Programm.
+==Finalists==
-The host of the festival where [[ ? ]] and [[ ?]].
-==Finalist Phase==
 Here are the 13  Songs featured in the final:-
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