Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Whitsun Wakes 1997
Adjudicators:	Michael Ball , Geoffrey Whitham
Venue:	Winter Gardens (Opera House Theatre), Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw
1	Aveley & Newham	Nigel Taken	8
2	Carlton Main Frickley Colliery	Allan Ramsay	15
3	Staffordshire	Steve Bastable	14
4	Leyland	Russell Gray	17
5	Pennine Brass	Ian Porthouse	9
6	PolySteel	Philip Harper	1
7	Mount Charles	Nigel Weeks	11
8	Ransome	Peter Parkes	10
9	Burry Port Town	Michael Thorne	4
10	GUS Band	David Stowell	6
11	Tredegar	Garry Cutt	13
12	Redbridge	Melvin White	5
13	Fishburn	David Roberts	18
14	Woolley Pritchard Sovereign Brass	Stephen Roberts	3
15	BT	Michael Fowles	2
16	Cwmaman Institute Silver (Tower Colliery)	Jonathan Corry	12
17	Freckleton	Paul Dalton	7
18	Besses o' th' Barn	John Hinckley	16
W	Beaumaris