Rock-Is-Life.com recently caught up with BLACKMORE'S NIGHT vocalist Candice Night. The following is an excerpt from the interview:

RIL: Your 2006 album Winter Carols is being re-released for the holiday season. Was it difficult picking a track listing when there are so many holiday albums and songs out there today?

CN: "Not really because we don't really pay any attention to the music that is out there. We play what we want to from our hearts and thats what keeps our CDs true, honest ad pure - because they aren't effected by outside influences. The songs off of Winter Carols are songs that Ritchie and I have been playing for the better part of 18 years at our holiday parties, which we throw each year. They're old favorites and a couple of new ones, but each with the distinctive Blackmore's Night style. That looking through the veil of the ages past and melding it with the present and on into the future."

RIL: While we’re on the subject of the holiday season, what is you opinion on the political correctness today to call the Christmas season the holiday season?

CN: "I think everyone is so uptight about everything these days. I am not sure who it is that gets offended by either being told to have a Merry Christmas or being told to have a Happy Holiday. Either way, the sentiment is the same, isnt it? Its a message of happiness of goodness and wishing others well. I think everyone needs to loosen up a little- either that or they are extremely bored. There are so many other things that seriously desperatley need our attention and our help and we're going to get caught up in which words to use to wish someone a good season? Come on..."

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