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Blackmore to join Purple for NY show

In a completely black(!) live session on Instagram last night US EST, Ritchie Blackmore revealed the “secret” that he will be the guesting Deep Purple for the encore at Jones Beach Amphitheater in Wantagh, NY on August 12. There seem to be tickets left, so grab one if you haven’t already.

Blabbermouth quotes Blackmore from the Instagram session:

Well, it is a secret and I don’t want anybody to know, but I’m probably get up and do an encore with the band, DEEP PURPLE. But you can’t tell anybody, and I know that this is gonna be kept a secret. And will it? I suppose so.

I changed my strings on my Strat, which I haven’t done in over 25 years… I hope the guy out in the front can turn me up.

Blackmore explains that he called Ian Gillan in Portugal and suggested a guest performance. Gillan apparently ran the idea with the rest of the band, and everyone agreed to do the show. I think most people reading this could guess which song it will be but Ritchie and Candice at least said it wouldn’t be Highway Star, since that is the set opener.

Igor’s Rock Universe on YouTube has posted the Instagram chat on his YouTube channel:

Thanks to Blabbermouth,, Uwe, Zenos and the internet for the news.

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Posted by Svante Axbacke on Wednesday, August 12th, 2026, filed under News. You can follow comment on this post through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a comment. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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