Blackmore’s Night, the band focused on Renaissance music formed by legendary Deep Purple and Rainbow guitarist Ritchie Blackmore (80) and his wife Candice Night, has postponed all their remaining 2025 tour dates due to unspecified medical reasons. “All Blackmore’s Night shows postponed at this point due to medical reasons.
We are sorry for any inconvenience,” the group’s social media said. They had six scheduled tour dates but only played two shows. Their show in Alexandria, Virginia last November 9 even had a surprise, since the band performed a cover of Deep Purple’s “Child in Time”. “We’ve never done that before, and we’re never doing it again!” Ritchie Blackmore said. The musician had a few health problems during the past years, including a heart attack in 2023.
At the time, his wife talked about that with Total Rock: “Ritchie has actually been told by a cardiologist not to get in a plane. He’s got six stents. …I can’t believe he’s gonna be 80, he doesn’t look it, still doesn’t act it. But eventually medical things catch up with you.”
The postponed Blackmore’s Night shows
- Saturday, Nov 15th – Newton Theater -Newton, NJ
- Thursday, Nov 20th -The Queen -Wilmington, DE
- Sunday, Nov 23rd – Cohoes Music Hall – Cohoes, NY
- Saturday, Nov 29th -Tarrytown Music Hall -Tarrytown, NY
Setlist of the most recent show (November 13 – Lititz, PA)
- Dancer and the Moon
- Darkness
- Dance of the Darkness
- Under a Violet Moon
- Soldier of Fortune (Deep Purple cover)
- Durch den Wald zum Bach Haus
- Ghost of a Rose
- Promise Me
- Black Roses
- Renaissance Faire
- Street of Dreams (Rainbow cover)
- Greensleeves (traditional song)
- All Because of You
- No Second Chance
- Wind in the Willows (Alan Bell cover)
- Mid Winter’s Night
- Dandelion Wine