Penn’s Peak has announced Blackmore’s Night, with special guest Wizards Consort, will perform at venue at 7 p.m. July 26.

The year is 1996. The setting: a snowy winter in Massachusetts. Inside a lodge, nestled around a fireplace, a guitarist plays some beautiful acoustic tunes, and a singer with an ethereal voice joins in. They play throughout the night, creating songs of myths and fantasy inspired by nature. All of this is occurring while the guitarist, none other than famed stringsmith Ritchie Blackmore, is working with his band Rainbow to record their last CD “Stranger In Us All.”

Here, in this moment miles away from it all, Blackmore and Candice Night are using their secluded time around the fire in the middle of winter to create, some beautiful music, a new genre, inspired by many melodies of the Renaissance period, and Blackmoreized into contemporary music. They call it Renaissance/Folk/Rock. This is the sound of Blackmore’s Night.

Tickets go on sale at noon Friday at all Ticketmaster outlets, the Penn’s Peak Box Office and Roadies Restaurant and Bar.

For more information, visit www.pennspeak.com or call 866-605-732.