A normal Sinfonia Saturday rehearsal, captured by photographer Lynley Cook.

The SBS Marathon is an iconic Christchurch event every Queen's Birthday weekend. The organisers of the 2008 SBS Marathon prizegiving took on Sinfonia as last-minute substitution for their regular entertainment and were so impressed they have booked the group each year since.

The end of year venture developed into a major day out - Sinfonia & Orchestra 3 left town at 9.00a.m. and stopped for the first playing in a marquee at the top of Gebbies Pass to the cyclists of the Armstrong Cycle Festival! What a surprise and rather surreal.