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'Singing Lemur' comes to Acoustic Coffee House
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BLANCHARDVILLE - The monthly Acoustic Coffee House features Rollande Krandall, the Singing Lemur performing ancient ballads, mostly from Ireland, singing, playing mandolin, ocarina and maybe even the bodhran, at 7 p.m. Friday, June 26, at River Valley Trading Company, 204 S. Main St., Blanchardville. Admission is free, donations are collected for the musician.

Rollande Krandall of Lemur Beads will return for a glass bead-making demonstration at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 27. Her beads and jewelry will be featured at River Valley until July 7. She will be teaching a workshop on wire-wrapping beads in July.

Lemur Beads Jewelry are hand made from Italian Glass by Rollande Krandall in a stone cottage near Mineral Point. This process involves melting and manipulating glass in the flame from an oxygen/propane torch. Historically this kind of torch is called a "lamp." Hence, the making of small glass objects in a torch flame is called "lamp working."