''Under a Violet Moon'' is the second studio album by the group

Blackmore's Night Blackmore's Night is a British-American neo-medieval folk rock band formed in 1997, consisting mainly of Ritchie Blackmore (acoustic guitar, hurdy gurdy, mandola, mandolin, nyckelharpe, and electric guitar) and Candice Night (lead vocals, lyri ...

, released May 25, 1999. ''Under a Violet Moon'' won the New Age Voice award for the best vocal album of the year.

Track listing

Personnel

;Blackmore's Night *

Ritchie Blackmore Richard Hugh Blackmore (born 14 April 1945) is an English guitarist and songwriter. He was a founding member of Deep Purple in 1968, playing jam-style hard rock music that mixed guitar riffs and organ sounds. He is prolific in creating guitar ...

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guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

, bass, Renaissance drums,

tambourine The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though ...

Candice Night Candice Night (born May 8, 1971) is an American singer and musician. She has been the vocalist/lyricist and multi-instrumentalist for the traditional folk rock project Blackmore's Night since its origins in 1997 with her husband, guitarist Ritch ...

– vocals,

pennywhistle The tin whistle, also called the penny whistle, is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument. It is a type of fipple flute, putting it in the same class as the recorder, Native American flute, and other woodwind instruments that meet such criteria. ...

;Guest musicians *

John Ford John Martin Feeney (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973), known professionally as John Ford, was an American film director and naval officer. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers of his generation. He ...

– vocals, bass on #07, background vocals on #01 & 10 *

Miri Ben-Ari Miri Ben-Ari ( he, מירי בן-ארי; born December 4, 1978) is an American–Israeli musician, producer, and humanitarian, known as "the hip-hop violinist". Life and career Ben-Ari was born in Tel Aviv District, Israel. She grew up playing ...

– violin on #04 & 11 * Peter Rooth – bass on #01 & 16; drum programming on #07 & 08 * Mick Cervino - additional bass on #04 * Kevin Dunne – drums * Mike Goldberg - military drum on #03 * Adam Forgione - additional keyboards on #04 *

Jens Johansson Jens Ola Johansson (born 2 November 1963 in Stockholm) is a Swedish keyboardist and pianist who currently plays in the Finnish power metal band Stratovarius and Ritchie Blackmore's rock project Rainbow. He is notable for his high-speed neoclas ...

– keyboards on #01, 04, 07 & 15 * Jeff Glixman, Roy McDonald - additional keyboards * Jason Chapman - trumpet and flugelhorn on #08 * Thomas Roth - bagpipes, backing vocals on #10 * Albert Danneman - bagpipes, backing vocals on #10 * Albrecht Schmidt-Reinthaler - harpsichord on #10 * Jost Pogrzeba - percussion on #10 * Christof Heus - trumpet on #10 * Adolf Lehnberger - trombone on #10 * Gell Spitz - trumpet on #10 * Rolf Spitz - trombone on #10 *

Mark Pender Mark "The Loveman" Pender (born August 21, 1957 in Kansas City, Missouri) is a trumpet player and vocalist who has played with Southside Johnny, Little Steven and Bruce Springsteen. Since 1993 he has performed on ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'' ...

- trumpet * Mr. & Mrs. Heller - hurdy-gurdy * Scott Hazell, Sue Goehringer, John Gould, Trish - backing vocals

Charts performance

Packaging

References

Blackmore's Night albums 1999 albums Albums produced by Jeff Glixman {{1990s-hard-rock-album-stub