Joel's Projects
The Loose Canon Chorale
The Loose Canon Chorale is a small, quality-oriented chamber choir based in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. It has grown steadily from fourteen members at its founding in 2003, to 23 members in its last active season (2006), and has performed with a diverse array of artists: singer/songwriter Miss Tess, the Balmus Ensemble; guitarist and composer Ro'i Raz, singer/pianist/songwriter Dreea Pauta, guitarist Paul Ehrlich, belly dance company OmBellyCo., singer Wil Darcangelo, and flautist and conductor Orlando Cela.
In its 2005-2006 season, the Loose Canon performed in a Hurricane Katrina relief concert at the Capital Center for the Arts in Concord, NH, was hired to sing at Jamaica Plain's Christmas tree lighting ceremony, co-hosted a sold-out April Fool's Day show- at a Boston comedy club, and performed for the Cambridge Summer Revels, in front of the Boston Children's Museum.
The Loose Canon Chorale is currently on sabbatical as we work to incorporate as a 501(c)3 non-profit organizaion.
Click here for concert programs and mp3 recordings of the LCC 
Click here for a link to Jamaica Plain Bulletin article
Click here to visit the Loose Canon Chorale website
the heARTbeat Collective
Healing and Expressive ARTists for Balance, Ecology, Awareness and Transformation. A forming 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to supporting an existing community of artists, activists and others who identify their life work as social, environmental or individual healing (or creating balance). The Collective will be an official and intentional support structure to strengthen this community, as well as to support the projects of the members in the community (including the Loose Canon Chorale and the Caroling Mob).
The Boston Merry Christmas Caroling Mob
The Caroling Mob is an annual mass caroling event open to all Boston area singers, amateur and professional. Sindelar founded the event five years ago as the logical extension of his annual Christmas Caroling parties; it has grown from 30 singers in 2003 to over 85 participants in two different states. The main goal of the Caroling Mob is to build community and goodwill, while de-emphasizing the commercial aspects of the holidays. In 2006, the Mob was featured in the Boston Globe article A 'caroling mob' takes to city streets.
The Churchless Church Choir
The Churchless Choir was formed as an opportunity for non-churchgoers to sing as a spiritual activity on Sunday mornings. This harmony circle met weekly to sing folk songs from many ethnic and spiritual backgrounds. Joel started the group at Spontaneous Celebrations in the spring of 2004, and continued until the fall of 2006, when he took a sabbatical to co-found the heARTbeat Collective and make a musicological sojourn to the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
