How Dresage Started with Celtic Flute and Ended Up One of L.A.’s Brightest Synth-Pop Stars

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Practice your Celtic flute, kids, it might just lead you down the path to becoming a fascinating L.A.-based electronic artist influenced by jazz and ’90s Canadian radio.

Meet Dresage, nee Keeley Bumford, who bought her dreamy sound to our Spark Disruptors Conference recently. Catch some of her gorgeous live performance above and watch her full conversation with Spark’s Nic Harcourt here, in which Bumford talks about the way music has helped her manage her anxiety and depression and about her hope to empower more women, women of color and non-binary folks to become more involved in the male-dominated world of electronic music.

It’s “Wake-Up Week” on Sparknetwork.com, in which we’re highlighting panels from our recent Spark Disruptors Conference about needed change, rule-breakers, and people doing meaningful things to challenge the status quo. Wake yourself up with more clips at Sparknework.com.

Shot by Al Sgro and edited by Chad Michael Ward. Special thanks to Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles.