In a few days’ time, award-winning band Red Electrick will be facing the music; actually they’ll be playing it to an audience for a worthy cause, namely the Faces voluntary organisation.

Fresh from releasing new single The Runaway – currently riding high on several radio charts – and an accompanying music video (available to stream at www.redelectrick.com), the popular band will be performing a foot-tapping live set at The Lido in Sliema on Wednesday night, strumming, drumming and crooning to raise funds to sustain projects that Faces is undertaking in Kenya and Tanzania.

Faces was set up in Malta in 2003 with the aim of improving the quality of life of people who due to poverty, displacement and other adverse situations are unable to access vital services such as healthcare and education. In Kenya, Faces funded the building of the San Ġorġ Preca home for orphans of St Joseph the Worker parish.

In Tanzania, the voluntary organisation has been collaborating with Cardinal Rugambwa Hospital in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, since 2011, working on a long-term collaborative capacity-building project aimed at improving the level of medical care it provides. A lot has already been achieved, but this is nothing compared to what still needs to be done to give the underprivileged a better quality of life and healthcare.

The third edition of Face the Music will be held at the Lido, Sliema, on Wednesday. Doors open at 8pm and entrance is against a donation.

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