Meet All of the Bluedog Guitars Team Members

Meet the Bluedog Team

Jenn Ladd

Phantom

Raised on Neil, Joni & Leonard, Jenn weaned herself onto Phantom of the Paradise as one of the 10-year-old Winnipeg kids obsessed with repeated theatre viewings of that most brilliant rock opera horror comedy musical film, leaving Jenn with a genre-bending musical voraciousness still hungry to this day. Jenn became a Phantom Impresario at numerous venues thereafter: Stage West, The Sidetrack Cafe, Joe King Ball Park, The Winspear Centre and ultimately, her very own Paradise, Bluedog Guitars.

Most Memorable Shows:

• k.d. lang 1983

• Leonard Cohen 1988

• Paul Haggis & The Wrangellians 1989

• Bridge School Benefit 2011

Guitars That Followed Her Home:

• 40th Anniversary Wee Lowden Brazilian Rosewood

• Santa Cruz Firefly White Ebony

• 1935 Oahu Style No. 65m Hawaiian Guitar

• 2005 GVCG Greenwich Village – Jonathan Wilson ’63 Sonic Blue Tele

Paul Haggis

Wrangler

Having cut his teeth playing polkas in rural Alberta, Paul spent way too many years inventing PrimitiveSax and Wrangellianing on Hornby Island before falling off a boat in Shanghai where he played Mongolian Folk Fusion till his visa expired. Upon returning to Canada, he re-connected with his Phantom and thus, Bluedog was born.

Most Memorable Shows:

• The Irish Rovers 1966

• B.B. King 1972

• Bob Marley & The Wailers 1979

• Miles Davis Expo 86

• Neil Young 1989

• Bridge School Benefit 2011

Guitars That Followed Him Home:

• 1957 Gibson ES-225

• Lowden F-35 Tiger Myrtle

• 2011 Fury Fireball

• Taylor 8 String Baritone

• Composite Acoustics Cargo

Dylan Ladd

Buckaroo

At the age of three, Dylan gained notoriety on Hornby Island when he hitchhiked solo across the Island to visit a friend. He continued his peripatetic ways until he began songwriting at a Roma Circus and Squat Community in Barcelona, La Makabra, till his mother (coincidentally the Phantom) summoned him home to attend high school. His expulsion from The Dome in Roberts Creek and a hiatus from his pursuit of Permaculture landed Dylan squarely on the doorstep of Bluedog.

Most Memorable Shows:

• Foo Fighters 1997

• Billy Idol 2002

• Manu Chao 2006

• Devendra Banhart 2006

• Gorillaz 2011

Guitars That Followed Him Home:

• 1986 Fender Telecaster Thinline Deluxe

• 1936 Gibson L-30

• Santa Cruz H-13 Nick Lucas Special

• Rainsong OM

• Composite Acoustic Cargo