
Shane Des Enfants
Teaching artist (he/him)
Shane Des Enfants is a singer-songwriter, producer, teaching artist and multi-instrumentalist from Bozeman, Montana who has recently relocated to the US after spending the past couple years living and working as a facilitator at an arts-based education non-profit in Ecuador. He is a classically trained French Horn player who played professionally but now considers guitar and songwriting to be his main areas of focus and teaching.
After completing a degree in Music and Multimedia at Brown University, he has pursued a diverse range of musical work which includes teaching instruments at public schools and at summer camps, facilitating the creation and production of an album of original music by his students, performing as a singer-songwriter, writing original music for local theater productions, and audio engineering and studio recording for bands and other independent recording artists. He enjoys incorporating non-traditional educational methodologies, like techniques from Agosto Baol’s “Theater of the Oppressed,” alongside traditional ones like western tonal theory.
He released his first entirely self-produced EP “shan/m/e” in 2022, and is currently working on a full length project. His most recent recording endeavor was in Ecuador, where he worked with rural communities to create an archive of recorded stories and music entitled “Indigenous ways of knowing and being through art, music, storytelling, and community.” He is deeply interested in American popular music, not only for exploring how cultural and historical context shapes artistic expression, but also because he finds social music making to be a meaningful pathway to creating connection and community.
You can find his work on shencito.bandcamp.com and shanedesenfants.com