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June 2007

"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."

 
Dear Candice,

I just want to thank you for your wonderful music. Actually I like Deep
Purple and I`m only a fan of BN for 1 year. I wanted to see what kind of
music Ritchie now does and I bought Village Lanterne. I heard the first song
and I was fascinated. I had never believe that I would like this kind of
music, because I was always listen to hard music as DP, Nazareth, Uriah
Heep. I saw your concert last year in Burg Trausnitz Landshut and now I`m
looking forward to Burghausen!

Now my question: On the DVD castles and dreams Ritchie is wearing a very
beautiful arm-ring on his left arm. I search in many stores but I could not
find this kind of bracelet. Can you tell me where I can by this?
I hope you can understand my bad english.

I wish you that all your dreams come true for your birthday. My birthday was
on Sunday, nearly yours!

With all my love to you and Ritchie.

Brigitte


Hello Brigitte and welcome to our family of fans!

Ritchie has a tendency to wear 2 bracelets. One of them is black with red stones on it. This one we got at a gothic shop at St Marks Place in New York City. The other one he wears is black (again...what a surprise...) but it is bands of leather weaved into a braid. This one we got at the Arizona Renaissance Faire and every once in a while we see these bracelets at market squares or in shops around the world. They may be easier to find. But check out your local goth shop, they're usually in the big cities. Not all their jewelry has spikes! Some of it translates really well to what we wear...

Good luck!

Love,
Candice



Dear Candice

How was in Belgrade? I know a lot people loves you here in Serbia. Unfortunately, I wasn`t able to come on the concert, because I work a lot.
Do you plan to come to Belgrade again?

I`ll write again soon.

Love,
Milan

PS You are beautiful woman


Hello Milan,

Thank you for your kind words. Oh Belgrade was SO wonderful! We really enjoyed the people, the fortess, the audience was just incredible and made us feel so welcome by singing along with every song! I'm sorry you missed it...but it will stay in my memory forever....

I do hope to come back someday soon...

Love and light to all in Serbia!
Candice




Hi Candice

Cant wait too see you again up in bonnie Scotland,i`ve been a big Ritchie Blackmore fan since the early eighties, and it`s always a pleasure to see this great man.OK thats enough of the praising,have you got a support act for the uk tour.By the way Candice you sing like an angel,see you on the 10th.

John

Hi John,

Thanks, I'll pass the "praise" along to the man... Yes! We have an AMAZING opening band called Gothian. They are a band that we discovered in the Czech Republic and we had them open for us on our last tour. They play traditional music and just to see those girls play their shawms is incredible!! Every member of the band excels at what they do...and I think you'll really enjoy them!
See you there...

Love,
Candice


Hello,

Please help. We love the dvd concert Castles and Dreams and fell in love with the song "Black Night" We have 5 cds and not one of them has the song? Is it released on a cd at all? If so, where can we find it?

Also, I have been asking where we can find a autographed photo for purchase but nobody gets back to us on that? We'd be more than willing to pay.

Thanks. With anticipation,

Mike and Debbie


Hello Mike and Debbie,

Interestingly enough "Black Night" is a Deep Purple song. You can probably find it on a compilation, as so many have been released at this point. But originally it was not found on an album, it was released as a single.

For a photo, please contact Carole Stevens at mnstrelhal@aol.com and let her know where you would like it sent.

Thanks for your question!

Love and light,
Candice



Hello, i did see a little bit of the song "Ariel" in the dvd 02 of "castles and dreams" , and i would like to hear this song, but it isn't in any album of blackmore's night. Can you help me ?
Thanks.


Hi!
Ariel is actually the 1st song Ritchie and I ever wrote together. But when we started writing music, he was also involved in writing and recording with the 1995 incarnation of Rainbow. At one point, Ritchie mentioned giving the song Ariel to Rainbow so that it would be on the album they were recording because the singer at the time was having a hard time coming up with lyrics that Ritchie and the producer were happy with. When he mentioned recording Ariel with Rainbow, I was just so happy that a song that I helped to create was going to be recorded! So, Ariel, the way we wrote it was not Ariel the way it turned out on the album. We wrote it in a very acoustic, magical style. But Rainbow was a rock band so it needed to be plugged in and rocked up a bit. If you are looking for it, you can find the rockier version on the cd : Stranger In Us All. We do play it in concert now, more as the rock version than the original version. It may even make it onto the new Paris DVD when that is finished!

Thanks for your question.

Love,
Candice



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