Under a Violet Moon is the second studio album by the group Blackmore's Night, 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 – guitars, mandolin, bass, Renaissance drums, tambourine
- Candice Night – vocals, pennywhistle
;Guest musicians
- John Ford – vocals, bass on #07, background vocals on #01 & 10
- Miri Ben-Ari – 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 – 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 - trumpet
- Mr. & Mrs. Heller - hurdy-gurdy
- Scott Hazell, Sue Goehringer, John Gould, Trish - backing vocals
Charts
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! scope="col"| Chart (1999)
! scope="col"| Peak<br />position
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!scope="row"|Japanese Albums (Oricon)
| align="center"| 13
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Packaging
left|thumb|The albums' cover image is inspired by the German old town street in [[Rothenburg ob der Tauber]]