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Happy Birthday Candice Night, you are the perfect foil in Blackmore`s Night, nice to know Ritchie has found his soulmate. All the very best in your future ambitions, please give my regards to Ritchie...the greatest!
Love PowerKnight.


Candice,
 A long fun filled sunny day with a magical starry night, with a bright moon to guide you to a wonderful slumber with timeless dreams of your enchanted day! Hope your Birthday is as magical as you are! Happy Birthday! Fellow May queen!
Amy Llunna


CONGRATULATIONS,

Hello Candice, all good? I want congratulates it for its anniversary, I want that it knows, that your voice sweetens my life, without blackmore's night is as if life did not exist. I love all , never I give up. He wanted one day very to speak with vocês. He would give my life for this.
Sorry my inglish is very bad!

Rafael Carvalho Monteiro


Candice-
It is definatly and honor to be given the chance to wish you a glorious and happy Birthday! I hope that life has and continues to offer you only the best that it has to offer.
I had the privilage to see you and Ritchie in concert in Las Vegas several years ago and I must say that it was most incredable. The Music and the atmosphere lead to one of the most relaxing and memorable nights of my life.
With that said I want to take a moment to personally thank you for the influance that you have had for me for it has lead me to reach outside my comfort zone and to my first published poem with Renaissance Magazine.
I have struggled with and have enjoyed a passion for writing over the years. My main love is poetry and story of the Mediaeval era, so I must say with a humble heart thank you so much for the inspiration, the beautiful song and the message you bring to the world.
Once again it is with joy and appreciation that I Wish you a beautiful birthday!

Your friend-

Troy A. Jackson


Happy birthday to you Candice.May God grant not only you but Ritchie as well
a very long happiness.I personally wish you all the best and enjoy the
occassion.
We will drink a toast to your health, over a song played by you as you know.

With love and gratitude
From Fatmir and Albana Hysenlika


Our Dearest Lady Candice,
Happy Birthday!

Wish you health, joy, and happiness! Always be sailing the Ocean of Love, the Sea of Dreams-come-true, and the River of Eternal Sunshine!

Have a wonderful day!

Greetings from Ukraine,
Oksana Shkilnyak, Ritchie Blackmore & Blackmore's Night Ukrainian Fan Club
We love you and hope to see you in Ukraine again some day!!!

                                       
                                           



Happy Birthday, Candice "Benzaiten" Night.

Happy Birthday,Candice!
I remember that you sang Smoke on the water by a first visit to Japan performance 11 years ago.
I was convinced that Ian Gillan was not absolutely necessary for Ritchie Blackmore.
The music of the Blackmore night gave me who was hard rock complete devotion a shock till then.
Thereafter I like the hard rock as ever, too, but like music of the Blackmore's Night most. Four years already already passed since the last visit to Japan performance.
Please come to Japan again without learning lesson from a typhoon and an earthquake.
I went to watch a Blackmore's Night concert on the day of the earthquake in Tokyo on the day of the typhoon in Nagoya.
Japan had a Magic quest, too. There was the Japanese Magic quest in the near place from Nagoya.
Therefore I think that I am the best if a concert of the Blackmore's Night is watched.
In addition, a sale date in Japan of the new album seems not to be fixed, and all the Japanese fans worry.
Let a fan of the Japanese Blackmore night feel relieved as soon as possible.

////////////Mikihito


Ms. Night
Wishing you all the best on your birthday.
If you need to have a relaxing vacation, come to Bermuda.

I am the soundman at the Bermuda Folk Club, a small club dedicated to
bringing all forms of music to the public. If you ever have any free
time in your busy schedule we will love to have you and Mr.Blackmore
as our guests. We can't pay much but you do have a small following
who would love to see you perform.

Have a great birthday
Thanks for the music
Tommy Smith
Bermuda


I´d like to send my warmest and deepest birthday salutations to our fairyqueen Candice!

May the fairies watch over you so that you´ll have a wonderful birthday.

I can only hope that you´ll include Copenhagen on your second leg of the european-tour so that we can meet again!

"...So here´s to you all my friends,surely we will meet again..."


Magnus Petersén
Ängelholm
Sweden


To Candice!!

To our favourite Minstrelette,with her sweetness and her melodies,always give us deep feelings and takes us back to the enchanted atmosoheres of long times:
Best wishes with all our heart!

Your best fans

Giorgio and Daniela


Andy Kraus (Doc)

Dear, yes, great wonderful Carole,

some weeks ago I gave you my promiss not to report back anymore until I have heard the new masterpiece, the "Secret Voyage" .
In fact, indeed the actual releasing time hasn't arrived so far... The real, official date for the release still hasn't come ... so, surely and unfortunatly I have to wait until the end of June.
But - and ..."here comes the sun" - today I had the great joy and pleasure to pre-listen via SPV to some short tracks of the new CD. And what shall I say?
I was overwhelmed, happy and so much delighted... What a joy... A dear old Friend named "Rainbow Eyes" is back...- with Ritchie playing the bottleneck as only as He can play...Gooseflesh? Yes, and tears of joy...Of course I only listened to each song just for a few seconds, because I want to keep my pre-joy until I have the great pleasure to hear the whole album in full glance. But these few seconds already gave me the sign: Well Worthy having wait for this new wonderful Blackmore's Night Album! It will become another legend...

Once again : Thank you ! Of course many greetings also to your blessed daughter (Happy Birthday ! Candice, you are sooo wonderful) , and also to the one and only...Ritchie.

It's so great having had the chance to meet you wonderful people...

Andy



In May 8 of a blessed year, was born a child that'll bring to us your divinal voice. Thanks, GOD, My LORD, for the Golden Queen CANDICE.
Candice Night, in this magical day, i wish you HAVE all that you need...Wish the light always lead you the way. My Queen, from the distant Brazil, i love you. Thank you for existing in my life! Happy Birthday and keep on singing to us!
GOD bless you always and specially today!

SERGIO PETRONILHO JUNIOR - BRAZIL

HOPE THAT ONE DAY I WILL SEE YOU SINGING IN MY COUNTRY!



Dear Candice,
Hope you had a wonderful day! Got to see you in concert at the House of
Blues in Chicago on Oct. 18. My daughter and I really enjoyed the show, and
we got a great big laugh at the bunny wondering around during one of
Ritchie's most serious moments. Just like to say that you are as beautiful
as the music you make.

My birthday is on May 12, and I'll be 51 years old, but I won't get my best
birthday present until about July. That's when your new album is due out.
Please keep creating those beautiful tunes, and I really, really would like
to see another Xmas album too!

Thanks so much for helping make our world a little better.
Sincerely,
Steve Jobe



Happy Birthday Candice!!
You've no idea how much happiness yourself and Ritchie (for many years) have given me with your music... I hope you had a lovely day.
All my best wishes to you and that talented fella of yours...
Kevin S. Cook

                        PS ...Play Ireland sometime!!


From Riccardo:

Dear Candice, happy birthday with all my heart! Your magical voice, lyrics, and music are always the sweetest inspiration for me. They warm my heart and make me feel close to Mother Nature and her wonders... Thank you so much for sharing your amazing talent and wisdom with us...
                          Happy birthday!!
With love,
Riccardo


Hello Candice, my dear friend!
I wish you a joyful, magical birthday with all my heart! Thank you for being true to yourself always, for your connection to Mother Nature, for the wisdom and light in your soul, and for the timeless beauty and power of your music.
I listened to the samples of the new songs and I shed more than one tear for the feelings they give me... Your voice and lyrics are my greatest inspiration. They give me strength and remember me to believe when I need it most... Thank you with all my heart for your music and your friendship to me...


Happy birthday, and see you soon!!!!!
With all my love, your friend,
Elisa


Dear Candice!!
We are your FANS from RUSSIA(Saratov City)!We wish you happy birthday!
We wish good luck you happiness and successes in career (your music)! We
like you and your songs! We want to see you
in Saratov! We raise a glasses for you!
VLAD, Yegor, Ivan. Sorry for our English. We writted it with bad  dictionary.


Happy Birthday Candice.

Hope you had a fantastic day yesterday with your family and friends around you.

I’ve just seen the video of yourself and Romper – lovely!

Thanks for all your wonderful music – long may it continue. I’m pleased to say you’ve inspired me to learn the recorder. I’ve played piano since I was 10 (I’m now 55) but I’ve never tried any “blowy” type instruments but I’m enjoying it very much so far even though it has only been a couple of weeks. I’ve bought a good plastic recorder to start learning on, but I think as I progress I definitely will invest in a wooden recorder, and who knows, I may try the medieval-type instruments eventually.

Looking forward to seeing you in the UK next time you are here.

Have a great year. Best wishes to Ritchie too.

Carole
Poynton, Cheshire


Recently you answered a question from a potential fan worried about possible "occult" influences. I liked your answer and I'd also mention the three great fantasy writers of recent times, Tolkien, Lewis and Rowling - practicing Christians who wrote stories full of magic



Dear Candice,

I love your voice, he is very clean and distinct. My daughter (now 17 months) slept to listening yours music. I never don't hear same music, combination subtlety with "fire" of Ritchie. It is real, fair harmony.
I like Eire,her legends,her soul. I am from Poland, and I think that history Eire and Poland are similar. Mayby sometime I will move to Eire ... I going to do it :-)
(my english isn't perfect, I learn thet)

Good luck Candice and Ritchie ;-)

Tom



Hello,
i am Manohar from indian, i heard fariee queen song, awesome.... no words to say........ your voice expression is so nice.... i know carnatic , hindustani, and western classical music.............. you used so many carnatic music impression... i noted that........so good....... Thank you........



Dear Candice,

I'd love to see you on a concert in Poland one day, especially in
Krakow, where I live :) I know that you visited my city 4 years ago,
when you performed in Wieliczka salt mine, but I learned about this
too late to buy a ticket... Please, come to Poland next year! I have
almost all your albums, but I suppose to see and hear you live is
something completely different... I'm sure there's plenty of beautiful
and magical places in Krakow in which you could do the concert -
you've seen Krakow before, so you know it's worth coming here again :)

Best regards,
Kuba



Dear Candice,

that's a great piece of news to hear that you're releasing the fabulous concert in Paris. I was there (the guy in the black velvet medieval shirt somewhere around the tenth row - in case I had been shot by chance) and it will be a perfect souvenir (Santa Clauss is already looking for it in the local music store) to experience again and again that great moment. I can still remember the remarks of people going out of the Olympia : "c'était magique!". I myself found you and Ritchie very generous on stage - and the giant bunny very strange ('Bristish humour' I told myself in order to find meaning to this nonsensical, Alice through the Looking Glass-like moment, while Ritchie was sweeping and swirling through a beautiful guitar solo).
Plato says that the Ideal exists beyond our sphere. True, our world of living dead is far from ideal, but sometimes, we find bubbles or spaces in which the Ideal can be seen uncorrupted by the greyness of a decaying world: the beauty of nature, the passion of love, the transcendance of the imagination which makes all Paradises, Valhallas or Elysiums futile, the love of one's parents, and, last but not least, Candice's voice.
It is the first time in my life that I have been so moved by a voice. I had already felt awe for Jim Morrison's voice and reverence for Ronnie James Dio's, especially on the song "Sitting in a dream", but Candice's voice is like love incarnate, a mixture of sweetness, gentleness and unearthly beauty. It is like a spring flower through which the young sun sends its ray. It is like a smile, or like a breeze fluttering up in the sky, dying away only to come back with renewed energy and light. Even in the cloudiest day, Candice's voice will be able to bring joy and tenderness. I have seen pictures of Candice dressed as a faery, but she does not look like a fairy; she is a fairy or a goddess or whatever being who has the power to redeem our world or our feelings.
So, coming back from that fantastic concert, I had to write a poem or lyric; that's the way I am. here it is, attached
Thank you very much Candice and see you very soon
Fabien from the Loire Valley, France


Dear Candy!
Happy Valentine's Day! It is a day of love.. So, I want to say, that I love you! You are special.. I've seen nothing that makes sense in our life, except being in love.. You touched my heart, you touched my soul, you changed my life and all my goals.. My heart was blinded by you! Thank you for all! You're really amazing woman..
And I love you, I swear that's true.. I cannot live without you!
From Denis to Candice


What a great picture of you and Ritchie on the site.

There cannot be many people in the world who look (from a picture anyway) so
happy.

Apart from complementing each other 100% you produce the best music I have
ever heard.

All the best from the UK

Graham & Sheila Manchester


Dear Candice,

I rarely email anyone and I have never connected an artist on a fan site before. However, my wife and I attended the Fairie Festival at Cooper Lake in Western Pa. and your persoanilty and performance was so stunning that I wanted to compliment you on your lovely graciousness. My wife has two grown daughters by a previous marriage. She was particularly taken by your willingness to allow the young girls to join you on stage. She has been gushing about the delight you gave these children for over a week now. As we stood inline waiting to have you sign the two CDs we bought I was startled by the genuine warmth and affection you showered on your fans. I understand that a professional performer knows how to handle a moment, but you were truly enchanting as you interacted with the audience. I marveled when you had your assistant take repeated pictures for two adult fans to make sure that their moment with you was properly captured. Your loveliness with the children was even more stunning as they came up to you for their private audience with the Fairie Queen. It had a special poigancy for my wife since her mother is very ill. I treasure anyone or anything which can allow my wife a temporary release from her sadness. You truly gave her such a moment. I have been a fan of Celtic music for a long time. I have attended three Chieftains concerts and found your music singing to be wonderful. You have made two immediate fans with your music. I do hope you find a venue in Pittsburgh this fall. You worked your magic so well that I'm already weighing how far we'll travel to hear you in another city. Thank you for a "beautiful day." The highest compliment I can give is that you were as good as a U2 concert. I wish you all the best both professionally and personally. My wife and I will cherish the spell you cast that day for a long time.

Steve


Candice,

I wouldn't normally do this but I can't get rid of the feeling that I
should send this poem (lyrics?) to you. I wrote them a week ago and I
can't read them without hearing you sing them. So maybe it's magic or
maybe it's the pizza I ate before but here they are. I hope you like
them. Use them if you wish...

I so love you guys. Thanks for the beauty you have brought into my life
with your music and lyric...

Michael



Hi Candice,

 A friend of mine is a big fan of your music and i borrowed some cd's, i've never listened to your music until this week and i found it really really amazing. I watched some of your videos and I love the way you sing and the way you look when yo do it. You should already know this but there's no harm on saying it...I think you are so beautiful and talented, and that is a mix that you cannot find easily.
I use to sing in a band and i love music, i really do, and I am also a huge fan of Irelad's culture, music and pretty much everything about the country, so when i listened to your music, one of the things that i really dug about it was the combinations of sounds that are similar to Irish music......I just enjoyed it so much.
I can't stop saying how beautiful I think you are and I hope everything will turn out great for you guys this year. You are really good musicians

Regards, Christian Jáuregui, León, México



Dear Candace

First of all Merry Christmas! We had a very Blackmore's Night Christmas this year. We have spent the day enjoying your DVD's. I heard your music for the first time in late summer when it was played on our local public radio station, WNKU. We have a
folk/celtic band and I am always listening for songs that we could perform. When I heard the first few bars of Village Lantern, I called the station to find out what song and what artist I was listening to. I went that day and bought The Village Lantern and my husband played it over and over and over until we also
bought Ghost of a Rose. Now we have the DVD's which we enjoy tremendously.
We recently opened an acoustic music coffeehouse in our small village just east of Cincinnati, Ohio and named it, of course, the Village Lantern.
Thank you for your lovely music and Ritchie's wonderful guitar work. We are now devoted fans. Please come to Ohio as soon as you can and we will
bring our folk troups with us to hear you.

Happy Holidays.
Prudence Hunt


Dear Candice!

Merry Christmas to you!

You´ve been a good example to my life, because i can see in you the patience with all in your life!
I´m a little bit unpatient with a lot of things, but when i read your texts or your interviews you are a guide to me! And I ´m being better!
Well I won the Paris Moon DVD in Christmas!!! IT´S WONDERFUL
I can tell you, I know the Diamonds and Rust is a Joan Baez song, but YOU was born to sing this song! How beautiful is your interpretation, it moves me!
I wanna wish a Very Good New Year to all that surround you! Carole, Ritchie, your cats, your flowers, family and friends!

All the best to you!

Elen Cristina and Lenny Dufloth from Brazillian Fan Club!


Hi Candi and Ritchie,

Just wanted to drop in and wish you both a very joyous Holiday and may God bless.

Peace,
Randy aka Rockin' Ran from Urradio.com


Dear Candy,

Its very late on Christmas day.....or should I say early Boxing day morning !
I have just listened to, and studied the lyrics to The Village Lanterne.....Its impossible to appreciate sad songs until you have been betrayed.

Your music is superb Candy. Sir Richard is my hero......Please keep creating gorgeous music.

Love and Light.

Mick, UK.


Greetings, Candice.

My wife and I drove to Charlotte from Knoxville, TN to see you at the Charlotte concert, and I believe we sat directly behind your family! We have been to hundreds of concerts, and this one is tied for number one for us. I have always wanted to see Ritchie in concert, but adding Night to Blackmore was like icing on the cake. You were all awesome, and Geyers were excellent, as well.

After the concert I spoke briefly with you (Thanks for autographing my CD!), asking you to PLEEEEASE consider covering April from the Deep Purple Deep Purple album (has Hieronymus Bosch cover art). The song opens with an extensive sequence of chamber music before changing over to one of Ritchie's best ever guitar pieces, and the lyrics are pretty good, as well. It really would fit your idiom well. (O.K., sorry, borrowed that from Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail.)

Kent Van Cleave, Ph.D


Dear Candice!

I congratulate you on Christmas! I wish you to remain same beautiful, charming, unusual, a little bit mysterious, sexual and so lovely woman! Let this light holiday will bring to you only pleasure! I love you!
From Denis to Candice


Happy Holidays, Candice and Ritchie!

We’d like to wish You very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year! :)
Peace, Love, a lot of joy and beautiful memories coming from these special
days of celebration. Best wishes for You and Your whole family !

Keep on making Your magical music!

Love,
Anna Kabziñska and family,Warsaw,Poland


Dear Candice

 At the age of 46 I have just discovered Blackmore's Night and I just had to write to express my joy. The first album I bought was Fires At Midnight and it left me completely mesmerised by the wonderful music and the voice of an angel that is Candice Night.

I have always enjoyed mystical and enchanting music and have long been a fan of Irish legends Clannad.
Your music is of equal legendary status and I now have all the CD's and DVD's that are available.
Your version of Diamonds And Rust is one of the most emotional recordings I have ever heard and touches me deep inside.

Candice, I really admire the way that you conduct yourself on stage. The warmth, humour and love that emanates from you is so genuine and makes the concerts so special.
Good luck and best wishes to yourself, Ritchie and all the minstrels. Ritchie and yourself make a beautiful couple.
Christmas and New Year wishes to you all
Love always.


Paul Essex


Dear Candice

Thanks so much for the lovely Winter Carols album. Your wonderful vocals and instrumentals really evoke the authentic medieval atmosphere of Christmas, and it’s great just to forget all the false commercialism that is associated with Christmas today and get into the true spirit. We would so love it if you were to perform these beautiful carols and songs at a Christmas concert in England, and wondered if you had plans to do this. We would certainly be there in medieval costume at the front, singing and dancing along!!

My brother’s partner has been playing her copy of Winter Carols at the school where she teaches first and second year primary classes. Her pupils adore it and are constantly asking her to play their favourite tracks for them, so it would be lovely if they too could come along to one of your concerts.

I hope this finds you and Ritchie and the rest of the band in good health, and wish you all a wonderful Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year.

Lots of love and best wishes to you all.

Veronica Howard
Northampton
England


Dear Candice and Ritchie,
Wishing you both good health and happiness for 2008 and beyond.
Hope you both had a great Christmas.
From,
Diane
xxx