About Silas Bonnell
BIOGRAPHY
20-year-old Indie/blues artist Silas Bonnell is an electric shock of a guitar player, songwriter and producer out of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Silas has released 4 bedroom studio albums since discovering his love for recording in high school. Silas has written, recorded, produced, and mixed 11 solo studio albums with 5 that remain on streaming platforms. Working closely with singer-songwriter Eliza Rhinelander, The two have put on sold out shows across the city playing everything from a performance at The Carleton (Halifax) to a private barn concert that had more people than space inside the barn.
As a producer and engineer Silas (based out of Dartmouth NS) has worked with over 25 talented artists across Canada, Specializing in genres such as Folk, Rock, Indie, Singer-Songwritrer, Blues, Country, Pop and R&B. Silas has been known to do a little bit of it all.
SGB Records: Silas owns and runs a small record label with 7 full time artists called SGB Records aimed at kick-starting new artists careers in the HRM area. SGB Records have just passed the mark for 300 000 streams all artists included. As a collective unit SGB Records artist will be releasing 3 EP's and 1 full LP over summer 2024. Including releases from Silas Bonnell, Eliza Rhinelander, Maeron Sullivan, Fiona Clancey, and wil C.
Growing up in Nova Scotia, Canada, Silas grew up going to church with his family and was heavily immersed as a child in genres such as Classical, Gospel, and East Coast folk music, especially Newfoundland folk music due to the majority of Silas' family hailing from the island. Silas' father Gregory Bonnell was a professional gospel singer, (classically trained in Tampa, Florida). Due to his fathers love of the genre having a large collection of gospel records in the house Silas' first exposure to music was rich in bluegrass instrumentation.
Silas started singing in a small Baptist church in Dartmouth, NS, where he attended with his family growing up. Silas branched from singing as a toddler he first picked up the ukulele first at age 4 learning to play simple chords, and old tunes such as “I want a girl” by Al Jolson. At age 5 Silas moved on from the ukulele to playing his dads acoustic guitar where friends and family would joke saying the guitar was bigger than him, and at the time it was! At 8 years old Silas saved up enough money to buy his first guitar, that was a small body Yamaha. By age 10, he had around 150 gospel songs under his belt by memory.
Writing songs didn’t become an interest to Silas until he was 15 when he started writing his first song for a girl he liked at the time. Music production followed soon after when his Dad bought him a Scarlett 2i2 pack to record his newly written songs. A few months later after writing a collection of songs, “Tonight” was released as the first single off his first demo album called “Pieces of my heart”. Following that came 3 more demo albums (Pretty as a sunset, Letters, and A girl). Bonnell’s first actual traction came from his second studio album Lady, where he had songs that gained popularity for songs such as “Pink if she loved me”, (that went 17th on CIOE Top 30) and “Lady” that became a crowd favourite in live shows. Post Lady came Serenity with his second most streamed song to date “Starlight”that got attention for it's upbeat lively nature. Also, in 2022 “Yellow house lane”, a 18 song Pop/Country album was released. his largest album to date. Yellow house lane came with new crowd favorites such as country blues song “Alaska” and deeply personal songs like “Antidote”, and “Emotionless”. Into 2023 Silas released his first full pop album Lights with new exiting features from artists such as Fiona Clancey (Flowers in your garden), and wil C (Suave and Raindrops).
Currently Silas is playing shows all over Atlantic Canada with incredible artists such as Eliza Rhinelander, and Fiona Clancey, as well as instrumentalist’s and writers such as Braydon and Leo Cox. Silas will be Releasing his 6th studio album "Only You" coming on June 19th 2024. a 15 song Indie/Blues album about love heartbreak and the vicious cycle the world we live in today.
Look for information on Silas’ newest music and show dates on his Instagram.
@silasbonnell