Behind The Artist

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.

Song List

I perform a wide variety of songs from all eras of popular music. Here are a few covers from my acoustic catalogue!

  • Yesterday
    Come Together
    Twist and Shout
    A Day In the Life
    A Hard Days Night
    Here Comes the Sun
    Mamma Mia
    Dancing Queen
    You Can’t Always Get What You Want
    Paint it Black
    If You Could Read My Mind
    I Will Survive
    Landslide
    Go Your Own Way
    Hound Dog
    Can’t Help Falling In Love
    Folsom Prison Blues
    Ring of Fire
    Crocodile Rock
    Tiny Dancer
    Bennie and The Jets
    Hotel California
    Take It Easy
    My Generation
    Hooked On A Feeling
    Wish You Were Here
    Rockin In The Free World
    Born To Run
    Psycho Kiler
    I Don’t Want To Set the World on Fire
    All Along The Watchtower
    Like A Rolling Stone
    Knockin’ On Heavens Door
    Superstition
    Signed Sealed Delivered
    Isn’t She Lovely
    Roxanne
    Sweet Caroline
    Country Roads
    You Make My Dreams Come True
    Dream On
    Piano Man
    Anthony’s Song
    Jolene
    God Only Knows
    How Deep Is Your Love
    Fly Me to The Moon
    Dancing In The Street
    Proud Mary
    Great Balls of Fire
    I’m A Believer
    Happy Together
    Stand By Me
    Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You
    She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain
    Blue Moon
    That’s Amore
    You Are My Sunshine
    Dancing In The Moonlight
    Heart of Glass

  • Jersey Girl
    Running Up That Hill
    Dancing In the Dark
    Born In The USA
    I’m On Fire
    Hungry Heart
    Lovesong
    Boys Don’t Cry
    Friday I’m In Love
    Hallelujah
    Everybody Knows
    Won’t Back Down
    Free Falling
    I Wanna Dance With Somebody
    Purple Rain
    Drive
    Burning Down the House
    Naive Melody
    Faith
    Careless Whisper
    Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
    Modern Love
    Everybody Wants to Rule the World
    Beat It
    Summer of 69
    You Give Love A Bad Name
    Livin’ on a Prayer
    Don’t Stop Believing
    Blister In The Sun
    I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)
    Sledgehammer
    There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
    The Power of Love
    Crazy Little Thing Called Love
    Sweet Dreams
    Dirty Old Town
    Uptown Girl
    Take On Me
    With or Without You
    Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
    Pride
    Boys of Summer
    Jump
    Jack And Diane
    Crazy Train
    Holding Out For A Hero
    Personal Jesus
    Surrender
    Just The Two Of Us
    Always On My Mind
    Down Under
    99 Luftballoons
    The Gambler
    Sharp Dressed Man
    In The Air Tonight
    9 to 5
    Fast Car
    You Shook Me All Night Long
    The Best
    Ghostbusters

  • Come As You Are
    Smells Like Teen Spirit
    Heart Shaped Box
    Say It Ain’t So
    Buddy Holly
    Don’t Look Back In Anger
    Champagne Supernova
    Wonderwall
    Supersonic
    Brian Wilson
    If I Had A Million Dollars
    It’s All Been Done
    One Week
    Losing My Religion
    Everybody Hurts
    Man On The Moon
    It’s The End of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
    Bobcaygeon
    Wheat Kings
    Ahead By A Century
    New Orleans is Sinking
    Grace Too
    Fifty Mission-Cap
    Poets
    Courage
    My Hero
    Everlong
    Under the Bridge
    What’s Up?
    Shine
    Basket Case
    Good Riddance
    Karma Police
    Creep
    1979
    Where Is My Mind?
    Here Comes Your Man
    Zombie
    Nothing Compares 2 U
    Home For A Rest
    Closing Time
    Last Kiss
    You Get What You Give
    Baby One More Time!
    Iris
    One
    Santeria
    Friends In Low Places
    Song 2
    Ironic
    You’re Still The One
    Believe
    Push
    Let Her Cry
    Nothing Else Matters
    Truly Madly Deeply

  • Sugar We’re Going Down
    Thnks Fr Th Mmrs
    Mr. Brightside
    All The Small Things
    I Miss You
    Viva La Vida
    Yellow
    The Scientist
    Seven Nation Army
    Use Somebody
    Sex On Fire
    Kryptonite
    Teenage Dirtbag
    The Middle
    Valerie
    Time To Pretend
    Kids
    All Star
    Locked Out Of Heaven
    Numb
    You Belong With Me
    Chicken Fried
    Photograph
    Cruise
    Island In The Sun
    Beverly Hills
    Gives you Hell
    Drops of Jupiter
    Beautiful Day
    Hey Ya
    Accidentally In Love
    This Love
    This is How You Remind Me
    Crazy
    Better Together
    Marry Me
    1985
    In Too Deep
    Somebody Told Me
    Little Lion Man

  • Knocking At The Door
    11:11
    Leather Jacket
    Book Club
    My Hearts Always Yours
    As It Was
    Robbers
    The A-Team
    Cool About It
    Stick Season
    Dial Drunk
    Centuries
    Blank Space
    Style
    Saviour Complex
    Riptide
    You Don’t Know You’re Beautiful
    Ho Hey
    Rolling In the Deep
    Better Now
    Galway Girl
    Teenage Dream
    Tennessee Whiskey
    Good Luck Babe!
    Thinking Out Loud
    Kilby Girl
    I Had Some Help
    Somebody That I Used to Know
    Please Please Please
    Espresso
    Deja Vu
    R U Mine?
    Tear In My Heart
    Stressed Out
    Birds Of A Feather
    Pink Pony Club
    Stitches
    Shut Up and Dance
    All My Love
    Apple / 360
    Tongue Tied
    Beyond
    Too Sweet
    Daisies
    Get Lucky