Boston Globe, December 4, 2010.
Ena Ursula Pena was shuttled from house to house as a child to avoid government assassins when her mother, a labor activist, received death threats... Tonight, Pena, now the Salvadoran vice consul in Boston, will give voice to emotions that are as keenly felt as her passion for human rights and feminist causes...
Boston Globe, December 21, 2008.
"It's not by any means common," says Joel Sindelar, who leads caroling groups in Jamaica Plain, including today's fifth annual Boston Merry Christmas Caroling Mob. "And because people don't see them as much as they used to, it's doubly powerful when you carol these days."
Boston Globe, March 20, 2005.
With 60 copies of sheet music in hand and no idea who or how many people might show up, 34-year-old Joel Sindelar optimistically hauled his keyboard and guitar in on his ''modified mountain bike" for the first rehearsal of his Churchless Church Choir on March 6...
Hallmark Channel's New Morning program, November 1, 2005.
Joel Sindelar was studying molecular biology at MIT when he decided to try singing in the university choir. The voice, they say, is the barometer of the soul and what started as a hobby soon became a passion for Joel. Now he's a choir director himself - and one of his favorite groups is for people who -- no matter what other jobs they have -- find their souls when they sing. They call themselves the Churchless Church Choir...
Jamaica Plain Bulletin, September 30, 2004.
At the JP Open Studios several weeks ago, there was one performance not on the schedule. A group of 16 men and women spontaneously burst into song in the middle of a Unitarian Church, leaving bystanders in awe and wondering what hit them...