Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Festival Music (Symphonic Suite) 1956
Adjudicators:	Drake Rimmer
Venue:	St. Bede's School, Sunderland

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Crookhall Bradley	Geoffrey Brand	5	191
2	Harton and Westoe Colliery	Wilfrid Scholes	2	186
3	Cowpen and Crofton	John Carr	6	184
4	Craghead Colliery	Eric Cunningham	7
	Head Wrightson Works	Unknown	1
	Easington Colliery	Unknown	3
	Horden Colliery	Unknown	4
	Ashington Colliery	Unknown	8
	Blackhall Colliery	Unknown	9

Programme states test piece was Le Roi D'Ys but all other areas played Festival Music.
9 bands competed.