The Wolverhampton Music School again offered their premises and a good crowd attended for this return of the competition with no fewer than eight participating clubs.  Three vocalists (a fourth having dropped out with tonsillitis) and nine instrumentalists ‘faced the music’. Catherine Chung was declared the best singer by the adjudicators with her two pieces by Henry Purcell and Gabriel Fauré. Judging was more difficult with the wide range of instruments ; percussion, piano, violin, oboe, clarinet and French horn. They opted for Leo Barnett playing Gilbert Vinter and Sergei Prokofiev on the French horn. They (Phaedra Nicholls and Simon Platford) also congratulated all the participants while criticising them positively. Richard Green was our skilful MC, giving us information about Rotary activities between performances. Bob Stolz from Bilston and John Mottram (organiser of Vocational Study Exchange) also chipped in and Paul Lockley had produced the well designed programme. The candidates : Preston Ssekandi, Caroline Smith, Megan Dobson, Ema Kelpsaite, Charlotte Anderson, William Tyne, Sophie Adams, Lucy Horne, Edie Beech and  Jasamar Gakhal will all have benefited from the experience. The winners Catherine Chung, sponsored by the City of Wolverhampton club and Leo Barnett, sponsored by Bilston and Wolverhampton West will now proceed to the District Final on 23^rd March.