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Enjoy a relaxing Mother's Day weekend with your family at a local roots rock concert, a blues review featuring both a Helen Hayes Award winner and nominee, an artist open house at Stifel & Capra, a special brunch at Mad Fox Brewery or Dogfish Head Alehouse and the Virginia Chamber Orchestra's spring concert.

The mighty Rubblebucket returns to the valley. Check out live music video at blogs.roanoke.com/cutnscratch/?p=10243 and blogs.roanoke.com/cutnscratch/?p=8045 . Details: 9:30 p.m. Growler's American Grill, Roanoke.

If you've ever lost your cellphone signal, you know the frustration experienced frequently by residents and visitors to a part of Floyd County.

Following is a list of some of the wineries in the region, according to virginiawine.org. Check with the wineries for hours and days of operations.

"If a man owns property and wants to put a windmill on it, that's his business. As long as that windmill is not bothering mine and is not throwing bird guts over on my place, let him have it." - J.C. Holden "If a man owns property and wants to put a windmill on it, that's his business.