Blackmore's Night

Blackmore's Night is the unique musical Renaissance/Folk/Rock project of Legendary guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and award winning singer/songwriter Candice Night.  Achieving fame as the composer and guitarist for Deep Purple and Rainbow, and writer of rock's national anthem 'Smoke on the Water’ Blackmore always had a  private passion for the bombastic regal music of the Renaissance period. When he teamed up with lyricist Candice Night, he was immediately drawn toward her nature driven lyrics and ethereal vocals, and the duo created their own genre of music, encompassing the melodies of  Renaissance times, but also capturing the romance, passion and chivalry of the  time period.

As  Ritchie became a master of the acoustic guitar, mandolin and mandola, Candice Night also began to expand on their unique musical instrumentations   and is now not only the lead vocalist, but she performs on 7 medieval wood wind instruments during their recordings and live  performances.

Candice Night is also the Princess of the Interactive theme parks Magiquest throughout the USA and Japan and expanding worldwide, and Princess Amora in Great Wolf Lodges where the Blackmore’s Night music is played throughout the amusement centers, as well as the Queen of the Faerie Festivals where the Blackmore’s Night music is spread to more female and family oriented groups.

In 1997 the group debuted with ‘Shadow of the Moon’ and achieved instant  gold record status.

The innocence and purity of their music attracted fans worldwide and many gold records and awards later they perform with their 6 piece Minstrel  Band to sold out venues in castles, UNESCO sites and historic theaters  world wide.

Celebrating their 15th anniversary, Blackmore's Night has become synonymous with ‘fantasy’ music and their unique style and multi-talented musicians-have earned them  several ‘Best album of the year’ awards, coveted spots on PBS throughout the USA, music video awards, high chart positions world wide, and many gold albums, and a gold DVD for Germany on Castles and Dreams.  Their studio CD  ‘Secret Voyage’ rode  high in the Billboard New Age Charts (top 10 for 61 weeks).  Secret  Voyage was  voted the Best Celtic  Album of the Year by New Age Reporters and NPR stations.  Their last studio CD Autumn Sky - named for Ritchie and Candice's baby girl - debuted at number 1 on the Billboard New Age charts and remained in the top 10 for over 40 weeks.  They were  awarded gold record status for this CD also and it was voted Number 1 Vocal  album of the Year.

2009 also saw one of the Blackmore’s Night songs featured in the new Jim Carrey  Movie “Yes Man...”

Yet this amazing group still finds time to donate many of their performances to no kill animal shelters, and saving endangered species throughout their  tours