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Tag Archives: Candice Night
EP review: BLACKMORE’S NIGHT – Here We Come A-Caroling

Edel/EarMUSIC [Release date 04.12.20] Blackmore’s Night have been around since 1997, founded by Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night to stage their mutual love for traditional medieval and folk-rock music. This seasonal EP is released ahead of the band’s next album … Continue reading
Album review: BLACKMORE’S NIGHT – Winter Carols

Minstrel Hall Music [Release date 20.10.17] Ritchie Blackmore’s move from the hard rock of Rainbow and Deep Purple to the renaissance folk of Blackmore’s Night, with his wife Candice, has always been controversial among rock fans, When I reviewed the … Continue reading
Album review: BLACKMORE’S NIGHT – To The Moon and Back

David Randall chatted to Candice Night and Ritchie Blackmore in October 2015 for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. The hour special gives background to the formation of the band along with selected tracks from their 20 year-history. Minstrel Hall Music … Continue reading
Gig review: RITCHIE BLACKMORE’S RAINBOW – Genting Arena, Birmingham, 25 June 2016

For us rock fans of a certain age – perhaps from early forties to sixty-ish – Ritchie Blackmore sits in the pantheon of rock royalty. As guitarist and songwriter in both Deep Purple and his own band Rainbow, he pushed … Continue reading
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Tagged Candice Night, classic rock, Deep Purple, gig, heavy rock, Jens Johansson, Rainbow, review, Ritchie Blackmore, Ronnie Romero
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News: BLACKMORE’S NIGHT and WALTER TROUT interview features, Sunday 8 November

Photo: Mark Hughes/MHP Studios On Sunday 8 November, on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, two recent interviews will be broadcast. Pete Feenstra has been a long-time supporter and promoter of Walter Trout and caught up with him to chat about … Continue reading
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Tagged Blackmore's Night, blues rock, Candice Night, Deep Purple, feature, folk rock, guitar, guitarist, interview, radio, Rainbow, Rithie Blackmore, Walter Trout
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Gig review: BLACKMORE’S NIGHT – Wolverhampton Grand, 1 July 2013

Ritchie Blackmore - a name synonymous with rock guitar since the late 60′s has played with some of the biggest bands and co-written some of the most well known rock tracks of all time. Since 1997 he has being writing … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 July 2013, Blackmore's Night, Candice Night, Deep Purple, folk, gig, mediaeval, review, Ritchie Blackmore, rock, Wolverhampton Grand
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Album review: BLACKMORE’S NIGHT – Dancer And The Moon

Frontiers www.frontiers.it This is Blackmore’s Night eighth studio album and the band has been going for longer than Ritchie Blackmore’s time combined in Deep Purple and Rainbow now. Some Blackmore fans will still pine for these rock years, yet that’s … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Blackmore's Night, Candice Night, Deep Purple, folk, guitar, guitarist, medieval, Rainbow, review, Ritchie Blackmore, rock
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CANDICE NIGHT – Reflections

UDR/EMI (2012) The name “Candice Night” was first heard back in 1995 when she provided guest vocals on Rainbow’s tenth and final studio album “Stranger In Us All”. Though her impact was only really felt on the amazing ballad “Ariel”, … Continue reading
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Tagged AOR, Blackmore's Night, Candice Night
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