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Today's top stories: Peter Pan Live! streams this weekend, Billy Porter drops a new music video, and more!

Dame Judi Dench has been creating TikTok videos with her grandson, Sam Williams, while in lockdown. Now, the pair has finally reunited! Dench showed off her moves with Williams in a new video, in which they recreated a viral TikTok dance!

CMT and Feed The Front Line (FTFL) today announced “Feed The Front Line LIVE, Presented By CMT,” a multi-hour, star-studded virtual benefit concert in support of Feed The Front Line's mission to provide free meals to frontline COVID-19 employees, essential workers, and other people in need while supporting struggling local restaurants.

Dame Judi Dench has taken up a new hobby while in quarantine - TikTok!

This weekend, COUNTRY MUSIC and bluegrass icon Ricky Skaggs returns to his home away from home, the Grand Ole Opry. For the past five weeks, amidst the current COVID-19 crisis and without an audience in attendance, the Grand Ole Opry has remained on the air as it has for 4,919 consecutive Saturday nights for nine decades.

While Broadway remains shut down, BroadwayWorld is keeping up with your favorite stars and giving you a peek at what they have been up to! Check out this weekend's videos, from stars including Glenn Close, Ben Platt, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sir Patrick Stewart, Laura Benanti, Dame Judi Dench, Sierra Boggess, and more!

Dame Judi Dench is wishing everyone a happy Easter!

Today, CMT revealed the 17 artists to watch in its much-anticipated 2020 LISTEN UP campaign, which recognizes and supports country music's most promising newcomers across CMT platforms. The year-long initiative raises awareness for new artists via support for their music and videos across CMT and CMT Music channels, CMT Hot 20 Countdown, CMT.com and @CMT social media channels, in addition to company-wide opportunities including live events and the ViacomCBS' Times Square NYC Billboard. 

Nashville singer/songwriter Sam Williams has shared the video for his latest single 'Weatherman', a cover of his father Hank Williams Jr.'s 1981 hit. The visual, which features footage from Williams' show in London as direct support for country star Cam's OH, THE PLACES WE'LL GO Tour, premiered with CMT Music - who claimed the track just may evoke 'chills'.

Singer/songwriter Sam Williams comes to the UK & Europe in September in support of fellow Nashville singer Cam on her Oh, The Places We'll Go! European tour. Kicking off in Belfast, Ireland on September 1st, the eight-date run will finish on September 14th in Berlin, Germany, with a show at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire on September 4th.

In 1935, Country music's “first family recording group,” The Carter Family, released “Can the Circle Be Unbroken.” The song (a hymn reworked lyrically by the group's patriarch, A.P. Carter) would become one of the genre's early commercial hits. Later, it would become symbolic of the “family of Country music,” in recognition of its roots and the artists who would carry those traditions forward for future generations. In celebration of this idea, Gabriel Communications is pleased to announce its latest 'reunion' series and DVD collection, “Country's Family Reunion Presents: Country's Unbroken Circle,” which affirms that, even today, traditional country music is alive and well and the “circle” remains enjoyably intact. 

Since the early 1980's, Chris Barrows has been one of the most entertaining and energetic front men in punk rock. He is the mastermind behind the Pink Lincolns, the Spears, 210 and his most recent endeavor, The Chris Barrows Band, just to name a few. If you are not familar, now is the time to catch up because Rad Girlfriend Records is reisussing the Pink Lincolns classic Suck and Bloat LP (featuring art work by Iggy Pop) and releasing an LP from the Spears, as well as an EP from The Chris Barrows Band on June 29th! You can listen to a new track from the Spears that features Greg Ginn now (see Brooklyn Vegan debut).

Mississippi-via-Nashville longhairs The Weeks debut their video for Bottle Rocket, taken from their acclaimed new album Easy, today via Baeble watch it here.

A British theatre company, Temper Theatre, will bring TRIBE to the Festival Fusiones Contemporaneas from August 25 to the 28.

Mississippi-via-Nashville rising band The Weeks' highly anticipated new album, Easy, is out now on Lightning Rod Records—listen here. The album is receiving early critical acclaim

In anticipation of their long-awaited new LP and North American headline tour this spring, Nashville-via-Mississippi band The Weeks will play select dates this week with Kings of Leon—March 8 in Chicago, March 9 in Detroit and March 11 in Broomsfield, CO.

Rising Nashville-via-Mississippi band The Weeks will tour the U.S. this spring to celebrate the release of their much-anticipated new album, Easy. Dates kick off April 4 at New York's Bowery Ballroom with further shows in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Nashville, Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and more.

Easy, the highly anticipated new album from rising Nashville-via-Mississippi band The Weeks, is set for release April 7 on Lightning Rod Records.

Nashville-via-Mississippi rising band The Weeks' highly anticipated new album, Easy, premieres today on Clash listen here. Easy, the band's third album, is set for releaseApril 7 on Lightning Rod Records.

In anticipation of their long-awaited new LP and North American headline tour this spring, Nashville-via-Mississippi band The Weeks will play select dates this week with Kings of Leon—March 8 in Chicago, March 9 in Detroit and March 11 in Broomsfield, CO.