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June 2006

"If you have a question for me, enter this room. It exists just for us. A place for you to come to ask me whatever you wish. A chance for us to get closer. Share your thoughts, tell me your story,ask me your questions.  They will be answered."

 

Hello Candice,


I missed you at the Shrewsbury Pa Faerie Festival. My scedule only allowed for me to be there Saturday. Please tell me you'll be there next year.
Thanx,
Chris

Hi Chris,
I've only been schedued to appear at the 3 faires that you have read of on my website, but I have to tell you I have had such an amazing time at all of them. I met so many incredible people and it inspires me so much to see so many that still believe in the realm of magic, in the simple beauties, in the majesty of nature. I have been blessed by crossing paths with those who have attended the faerie fests and have stopped by to say hello. I would love to do it again next year and promise that if it is to be, I will have it on my website as soon as I find out. Let's do it all again next year....
Love and light and faerie dust,
Candice


candice, I just bought the new dvd and was absolutely blown away ! hope to
see you in the new york new jersey, pennsylvania area soon. , I guess the
closest you will be is the faerie fest in pennsylvania coming up
soon.anything coming up for new jersey? thanks , john

Hi John,

Thank you. We're hoping to be playing around this area in October. Check www.blackmoresnight.com at the tour page site for up to the minute confirmed dates! As soon as they are confirmed they will be on there!

Love,
Candice



Dear Candice,

I don´t know if you will read these some words, I hope so,because I would like to send you my thankses,that I could spent so much lovely time with you.At the concert in Prague,It was amazing.

I just have one ask, who has the idea to mix Mond Tanz and Child in time together?It is something like a joke from you?Because these two songs are soo different,I think it is amazing,I like it very much.And I also like your new CD Village lanterne,I can´t stop hear it,it gives me such a good mood,in these hard days,when my good friend is so ill.You are great,thank you for all!!!

I hope you have good flight and wish you very happy birthday and nice party on monday!!!!

Lovely greetings Jana


Hello Jana,
Yes, we had such a wonderful time at the show in Prague. Thank you!
It was Ritchie's idea to mix the two songs together. Sometimes, when we rehearse, you have to do a lot of repetition and so Ritchie will throw in different songs just to mix it up a bit. He usually goes into a Hendrix tune or Cream riff, one day he went into "Child". I started singing and he liked the way it sounded. Especially with the range of the twins siging the climing vocal part. And now that we have been playing Mond Tanz on stage for almost 10 years, we have added new things to that song as well. The tempo is different, the arrangement... so we just thought it would be good to rerecord it with the style that we play it in now... And in that Moon Child was reborn!

Love and light,
Candice



hi there

just a quick email to ask is ritchie as bad to get on with as his other band members make out i saw him throw water at ian gillian once on stage' it seems he' got a bit of a temper. can i just say that i love the music you are making . and your voice is fantastic . keep up the good work

many thanks
martin

Hi Martin,
Ritchie is very easy to get along with if you give 100% of yourself, because thats what he does. If you are on stage and give less than 100%, that's where it gets tricky. I was actually there for the incident you are referring to and the truth was that he threw the water at the cameraman. That cameraman was asked 3 times to get off stage so he wouldn't get between Ritchie and the audience. If you paid money to see Ritchie play and only got to see the back of a cameraman's head all night, wouldn't you be annoyed? So, they asked tehcameraman to move. But he woudn't. So, what you saw was Ritchie's temper, but not for the reasons you may have thought...There's always a method to the madness.
Thanks for your kind words...

Love and light,
Candice




Dear Lady Candice
I am Johann Alemy ,19, from Iran.I have to confess I'm in love with your music -and with lord Blackmore. you can feel jealous!!!! :)) - and you can't believe the depth of sympathy between your music and me. I feel every note which is played and sung with all my soul.

I am starting a band named "The Nothing" and want to know what is the procedure of making a music (I mean how to start composing, music is first or lyric and....). because of some of my beliefs about arts, I don't know many things about music theory and composing.my other question is about lord Blackmore's method to practice guitar(I want to know the length, and the way) because he is my second god and I deeply believe he was, is and is going to be the best. of course so you are and these are NOT compliments or flattering, they are the pure truth.

Your answer to my questions will certainly be a great help to a young but great fan, a religious brother, and a young BLACKMORE'S NIGHT follower.
Please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please answer my questions and give me the great honor and establish an intimate relationship with me. BLACKMORE'S NIGHT IS A PERFECT AND ADMIRABLE MOVEMENT AND REVOLUTION IN MUSIC.
--
Johann**********Alemy


Hello Johann,

Thank you for your kind words...you sound like a very passionate artist indeed. I am glad that you started a band...music is the best outlet we will ever find, I believe. I am not schooled in theory or concept as far as making music is concerned. I never took courses in how to write music. Music is something that comes from within, and I think that even if someone tries to explain their process to you it is only their process that they are explaining. Your journey lies within your own process and if you try to follow how someone else does it, then you are following a path they have already made. Make your own. It doesn't matter what comes first. Everyone has their own way... When I write with Ritchie, he writes the melody line first. Then I try to imagine what pictures the melody is painting in my head and I channel those pictures into words for you to sing along with. Sometimes, the words come from memories, from visuals, from experiences, from dreams. Sometimes they will start with a line or a poem that I began years before. Sometimes they come from seemingly nowhere... But when I write by myself, the words and music either come at the same time, or I find myself humming a melody that is trying to come through. Sometimes I look at my journals or poems and just start making up melody lines to the words that are on the page. Try it all different ways. See what works best for you at different times. But above all else, allow yourself to be open. To see through innocent eyes, to dream, to imagine... There is a beautiful world in the process of creating music. You just have to find your own path. Once you begin it, you will find there is nothing else like it in the world.

One more thing...I suppose it is a strange thing to develop an "intimate" relationship over emails...but then again if you know me through my music, you know me intimately anyway...
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Love and light,
Candice




Dear Candice:

Have you ever thought touring South America? We’ll be happy to see you in Chile.

Candice… Did you make the backing vocals when Ritchie came with Rainbow in 1997.? I heard some voice but I couldn’t see faces.

Long Live to the Master of Masters “Ritchie”

Saludos,

Marcos Martínez

Hello Marcos,

Yes, I think about touring in South America all the time...I hope dreaming will make it come true some day soon. Dreams have a powerful effect sometimes...
Yes, that was me singing background vocals in 1997 for Rainbow. Usually kept way in the back of the stage off to the side. You probably heard me more featured on Ariel than anything else...
Hope to see you in Chile!

Love and light,
Candice



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