Sean Bienhaus

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My name is Sean Bienhaus, and I’m an independent artist, performer, and producer from Hamilton, Ontario.

As an artist my focus is on honesty, poetry, and storytelling. My songs revolve around themes of mental illness, community, love, and resilience, with music centred in sounds of folk, pop and rock.

I started out as a guitarist, playing rock songs with my high school band, but with the onset of lockdown in 2020, I began experimenting with home recording. After putting out my first full-length album in late 2021, (”You Won’t Ever Know”) I found a love not just for musical creation, but for the art of production. I decided that this was something worth learning about, and went off to study audio production and engineering at the college level, immersing myself in the art of recording. Today I not only write, record and produce my own music, but also regularly work with other artists on their own projects.

Following the pandemic, I began playing live around the city and discovered a deep love for it. In 2023, I began working steadily as a gigging musician and artist - singing, and playing guitar all across Southern Ontario, occasionally supported by a backing band, but mostly acting as a one-man acoustic act, playing over 60 shows in 2024 alone at festivals, bars, breweries, farmers markets, art galleries and more!

Recently, I’ve been hard at work on expanding my discography, and In the last year I’ve put out a new EP, 2 new singles, and a live album recorded at Hamilton’s own Supercrawl. I am currently in the process of recording my sophomore album, heading from my singer / songwriter roots into a more pop / rock direction.

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