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This years festival is back on and packed with amazing fun.

Details: 9:30 p.m. Martin’s Downtown, Roanoke. Free. 985-6278, martinsdowntown.com, bendedlight.band Mercy Creek Details: 5 p.m. Parkway Brewing Co., Salem. Free. 314-8234, parkwaybrewing.com, mercycreek.com FRIDAY The Wooks Kentucky band fuses rock n roll into its old-time and country styles. Salem native P.J. George is guesting on bass. Details: 9 p.m. Martin’s Downtown. $10. wookoutamerica.com Friday Night Backyard Jamboree: A frequent country store performer returns for a night of dance music. Details: 6 p.m. Live from Floyd Country Store, Floyd, and streaming facebook.com/floydcountr...

Magnetic, if anybody lucky enough to meet her would know that she made it so easy and fun to be around her, and she had that natural ability to make that -- you just felt like the best thing, you just wanted to spend so much time with her, and just be there. >> let me bring in somebody that knew that firsthand and knew how special your sister was even though they just met. cody, let me bring you in. you met her at the concert. tell me about it. >> we were at the side stage when we met, it was about 7:30 on sunday night. it was for lou combs, he was the performer. two people that i was with fro...

Her sister said she had an infectious smile. while she was there, she happened to meet a stranger, another 32-year-old named cody robertson. take a listen to what her sister and this stranger cody had to say about her. >> she was really, truly beautiful. inside and out. and she had this bubbly, infectious personality and it's so magnetic. anyone who has been lucky enough to meet her would know that she made it so easy and fun to be around her. >> we were actually at the side stage, originally, when we met. it was about 7:30. and we just kind of just instantly clicked. you know, she was a great...

Artists there on the scene? >> yeah, i have. i actually -- i talked to jason, he text me. i think he got a ride over to the airport, was waiting to hopefully get out. i talked to cain brown and i was standing on the stage with luke coombs and dan, we were standing side stage together when all of this went down and everybody seems to be okay. for the folks that were out in the crowd that were there with open shot from where he was shooting from the mandalay. i mean, you couldn't tell where it was coming from, it was loud and nonstop and people were screaming and it was wild. >> that's the scari...