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Hook Point Brewing Company Landing Soon in Collierville

Hook Point Brewing Company is due to land in Collierville by the end of the month.

Hook Point has been flapping its wings in the region for the last three years, distributing its flagship beer Flat Hat American Ale to liquor stores and restaurants.

The beer brand was established in 2017 by veteran naval aviator Mike Sadler, who wanted to follow his quest for adventure after his military retirement. He aimed to create a brand from the term “flat-hat,” which originated from the early days of Naval aviation and means “unauthorized, low-altitude flying” or, broadly speaking, to fly outside the rules.

“As the story goes, a pilot was flying very low down a road and hit a pedestrian on the head, crushing his top hat, hence, the term ‘flat-hat,'” says Sadler. “For us pilots, it was not about being reckless, but about pushing yourself, testing yourself, and being adventurous. Our Flat Hat is meant for those adventurous, active-lifestyle individuals who want to live life full-speed.”

Sadler’s son had been working in the beverage industry and was subsequently linked to a brewery in Atlanta called Second Self Beer Company. From there, a recipe was developed for Flat Hat: a dry, light-bodied ale that could “cool you off without slowing you down.” For the next three years, the beer would be brewed there and distributed here, as well as in northern Mississippi and Nashville.

By 2018, Sadler knew he wanted a home base where he could brew the beer himself. He thought Collierville would be just the place, in part because he lived in the area for 14 years, but also because Collierville didn’t have any breweries.

“Meddlesome was the first to bring something outside of Memphis,” Sadler says. “But there’s still nothing in the southeast. There were a lot of people driving, sometimes every couple of weekends, to taprooms in Downtown Memphis. I thought this would be a good spot that would be convenient for people in this part of town.”

So Sadler leased a 16,000-square-foot building at 184 S. Mount Pleasant and enlisted the help of fellow military veterans and award-winning brewers Jay Marchmon and Stephan “Tank” Emswiler to help develop new recipes and tweak existing ones.

Six additional core beers were created, all of which center around aviation themes: Inky Barley Scottish Stout, Haze Gray New England-style IPA, Cat Shot Kolsch, Skyhook West Coast IPA, 3-Wire Belgian Tripel, and gluten-free Hangar Queen Bitter.

Only Flat Hat has been distributed here so far, but the group has used local festivals and tastings to introduce their newer creations to the public.

One of the crowd-pleasers has been Inky Barley. Named after a bombing range in California, the full-bodied stout features notes of chocolate and coffee with a hint of smokiness.

Two other favorites: Haze Gray and Hangar Queen. “There were people who didn’t know that Hangar Queen was gluten-free when they tried it,” says Marchmon.

Hook Point is working on developing non-alcoholic beverages like n/a beer, kombucha, soda, and nitro cold brew coffee. Some of these may be used in brew recipes. “We’re definitely going to be using the coffee in some of our stouts and porters,” Marchmon says.

Sadler hopes to be open for business by October 31st, but due to Collierville laws requiring that 50 percent of the gross revenue come from food and because of COVID-19 restrictions, they will be open only for curbside service.

Eventually, they may add a restaurant to the Collierville location, but Sadler has also considered opening a taproom in Downtown Memphis.

“There’s a building in place, and a developer interested in bringing us in,” Sadler says. “We’ve had some discussions. But before I commit, I want to get this place up and running.”

Now, Flat Hat can be found at various liquor stores and restaurants. For a full list of locations and information on the grand opening, visit hookpointbrewing.com or flathat.com.

Hook Point Brewing Company is located at 184 S. Mount Pleasant, Collierville.

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Lucero Streams Live from Minglewood

CREDIT: Dan Ball

While the city was on lockdown, local Americana band Lucero finished recording a new album at Sam Phillips Recording Studio.

“We all wore masks, everybody stayed out of the way and everything,” says Brian Venable, the band’s guitarist. “But it was interesting. First or second night in, not only was there COVID, but the protests started happening and you couldn’t go out after 10. There was a whole lot of stuff going on in the world.”

Fans might be able to hear a couple of songs from the new album this Saturday during Lucero’s first live-streamed concert (recorded from Minglewood Hall) since they last toured together in February. Venable says the band agreed that they preferred this method of streaming over other methods they’ve seen musical artists use.

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Lucero

“Jason Isbell supposedly did that thing where everybody Zooms from their different houses and plays music together,” he says. “That sounds logistically like a nightmare. I go online mostly every night for an hour on Instagram and read. I’ve read four books aloud. There’s a Brian Venable Book Club now. I was like, man, I’m so tired of white, bearded, tattooed guys singing about girls on the internet.”

Venable adds, “There’s something about playing in your living room, but there’s also something about pay-per-view events where there’s lights and good sound and there’s a possibility of hearing new songs or making requests.”

Venable says, if everything goes according to plan, Lucero will play their annual Family Block Party in September. Until then, however, Venable says he hopes that this live stream will provide an authentic “MTV-like” experience for viewers.

“Tune in. Have fun. We’re Lucero,” he says. “Somebody is gonna be drunk, somebody’s gonna mess up, someone’s gonna have fun. Those three things are guaranteed.”

lucero.veeps.com, Saturday, July 11th, 9 p.m.-midnight; $10 for general admission; $50 for VIP, which includes T-shirt and signed screenprint poster.

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Cooper-Young to Host a Virtual July 4th Celebration

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Cooper-Young Community Association

Normally, around this time, the Cooper-Young Community Association (CYCA) would be gearing up for its annual CYCA 4th of July Family Parade at Peabody Elementary School, complete with decorated bikes, people, and wagons, as well as live music, Mempops, and fun family activities.

According to Amanda Yarbro-Dill, executive director of CYCA, this event was always a chance for CYCA to thank the Cooper-Young community for partaking in paid events, like the Cooper-Young Festival 4-Miler and Cooper-Young Beerfest, throughout the year.

“The parade has increased in attendance every year, and it’s one of the things that we use our money we make from other events to put it back in the neighborhood, give everybody a reason to get together and see each other,” she says. “It’s just a nice, sweet, simple little thing that we certainly can’t do this year.”

When it became clear that they could not get together for the parade this year, Yarbro-Dill and the rest of the team at CYCA decided they needed to find an alternative way for community members to interact with each other on Independence Day. What they came up with was an Instagram contest wherein community members are invited to submit photos Cooper-Young Community Association

 of children and/or pets dressed in costume, or of homes decked in 4th of July decor, in hopes of winning fun prizes like gift cards and Cooper-Young swag.

“That was kind of our thinking: Well, if we can’t do this together, then if people want to still use it as an opportunity to kind of show off and have fun with that kind of thing, let’s give them a chance and give prizes to make it a little more fun,” says Yarbro-Dill. “I think the whole neighborhood has really suffered from not being able to get together easily. So it’s kind of like the illusion of a social experience, even though we’re all just stuck in our pods or bubbles.”

Yarbro-Dill says that this is a chance for members of the community to show off the spirit of their neighborhood and that anyone can participate, whether they’re from East Memphis, Bartlett, or beyond.

“I just hope that, even if people are just seeing each other on Facebook, this will give everybody a boon,” says Yarbro-Dill. “We haven’t been out and haven’t had the opportunity to be together, so this will give everyone a chance to see each other and reconnect.”

Cooper-Young’s Virtual July 4th Celebration, instagram.com/cooperyoungassociation, July 4th, all day, free. Submit photos with hashtag #CYJULY4.

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MRPP and DMC Host a Series of Socially Distanced Independence Day Celebrations Downtown

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Although friends and families can’t celebrate Independence Day exactly the same way they may have in the past, that doesn’t mean they can’t enjoy a socially distanced outing by the river.

Memphis River Parks Partnership (MRRP) and Downtown Memphis Commission (DMC) present the first Quintessential Summer Celebration, featuring five days of independent celebrations for families to enjoy the full suite of amenities that Downtown Memphis has to offer.

“Usually the Memphis River Parks Partnership and Downtown Memphis Commission put on a Downtown Fourth of July celebration,” says Helen Hope, program associate with MRPP. “But this year, obviously, we can’t have 3,000 people all in one space in one day. So the idea we came up with is a socially distanced event with socially distanced activities, things for people to do to still celebrate. It will look a little bit different, but I think it could also be pretty fun.”

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Kayaking on the Mississippi

Attendees can pick up special lunch and dinner deals from Downtown restaurants and head over to Tom Lee Park, where there will be socially distanced areas for families and groups to picnic by the river.

Groups will also be able to take advantage of recreational activities like kayak and stand-up paddle board rentals, Explore Bike Share rentals, and more.

“This is an opportunity for people to see a different Downtown and a different riverfront,” says Penelope Huston, vice president of marketing and communications for DMC. “And we’re really excited about marrying this standard Downtown experience with all these new green tourism aspects of Downtown. You can be at the Memphis Rock ‘n’ Soul Museum in the morning and be on the river in a kayak in the afternoon.”

Quintessential Summer Celebration, Wednesday, July 1st-Sunday, July 5th, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., free.

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“The Lost Generation”: We Are Memphis Celebrates Black Music Month

During the mid-20th century, Memphis became influential in the music industry, being dubbed the Birthplace of Rock-and-Roll and the Home of the Blues, pushed along by then-up-and-coming blues, soul, and rock-and-roll innovators like Elvis Presley, B.B. King, Sam Phillips, and others.

Memphis continued to gain steam in these genres through the 1960s, but when the 1970s spurred a revolution of dance music and electronic means of instrumentation, Memphis artists caught on and joined a musical movement that would affect music throughout the world and in Memphis to this day.

Artists Anita Ward (singer known for her disco hit “Ring My Bell”), Dexter Haygood (frontman of glam rock/soul band Xavion, known for MTV video hit “Eat Your Heart Out”), Perry Michael Allen (songwriter and producer who was influential in synthesized soul as member of Kilo), and Larry Dodson (vocalist in The Bar-Kays and the Temprees) are just a few Memphis artists who were involved in this era of Memphis music, which has often been overlooked or under-recognized by fans and critics alike.

Just in time for Black Music Month, We Are Memphis celebrates these artists’ and others’ contributions to this time in musical history by hosting “The Lost Generation,” an online panel discussion led by local hip-hop musician and journalist Jared “Jay B” Boyd.

“These artists have done so much good work, and I want to honor them,” says Boyd. “I thought this was the best way to tell their stories and that this would be a cool way to connect with them and show them that I care about their story and that I’m very much interested in who they are and what they’ve done.”

Boyd’s interest in Memphis music started in college when he began collecting and spinning records after the death of his cousin Andrew Love, saxophone player for The Memphis Horns.

“I started collecting records to find all the records he played on,” says Boyd. “I built up quite the collection of Memphis records.”

This became the impetus for Boyd’s disc jockeying career, and since then, he has continued to regularly honor Memphis music during his DJ sets at venues like Eight & Sand at Central Station Hotel.

“My DJing starts with Memphis music and pretty much ends with Memphis music,” says Boyd. “I think I’ll probably continue to collect music from all other places, but at the end of the day, Memphis music is what fuels my interest in records.”

According to Boyd, much of the uniqueness of what we hear and see in Memphis music and culture is passed down by generations of different heritages and brought together in the melting pot of our city.

“I definitely think that there’s something about the confluence of energies and expectations and ideals that flow through this town, maybe particularly because of the river and where we are geographically,” says Boyd. “There’s just the right mix of people and their ideas and their cultures. Being that many of them fit together in this puzzle so seamlessly, we can kind of learn from one another and pick up on cues from one another. And I really think that it’s important to note that during Black Music Month, because a lot of that comes from the black music heritage.”

Boyd adds that it’s important to honor all genres Memphis musicians of all backgrounds have been a part of, whether that be soul, funk, punk, metal, or glam rock.

“When we talk about Memphis music, we always sort of go back to this era of soul of the ’60s and early ’70s, when that’s just not necessarily the only important era of music,” he says. “What we’re doing right now matters to someone 20, 30, 40 years from now. And so we have to make sure that we cover all these histories.”

Telling stories of unsung heroes who have had lasting impacts on musical history is important to Boyd, and he says that he is thankful to be able to do so in his own way.

“I’m grateful that We Are Memphis reached out for this particular project,” says Boyd. “I think I’m celebrating black music all year ’round, every day when I wake up. So whether or not they would have reached out, I’d still be celebrating black music and celebrating these artists.”

The Lost Generation: Panel Conversation with Jared ‘Jay B’ Boyd, follow We Are Memphis on Facebook to view the live video, Thursday, June 18th, 7-8 p.m., free.

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Outdoor Inc.’s Canoe and Kayak Race Goes Virtual

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Outdoors Inc. Canoe and Kayak Race has been a Memphis tradition for 45 years, attracting around a thousand recreational boating enthusiasts wishing to be the first to make it to the 5,000-meter mark on the Mississippi River each year.

According to Joe Royer, co-owner and president of Outdoors Inc., participants have come from near and far to be a part of the race, including well-known figures like double Olympic gold medalist and sprint kayaker Greg Barton, actress and former model Cybill Shepherd, and Pan Am gold medalist and sprint canoer Mike Herbert.

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Outdoors Inc.’s annual Canoe and Kayak Race goes virtual.

“[In past years], you got to line up beside Olympic and world champions in your recreational boat,” says Royer.

This year, although participants can’t gather in one spot due to COVID-19, they can still race alongside renowned athletes and public figures virtually. According to Royer, racers will be participating from as close as Hyde Lake and Wolf River Harbor in Memphis to as far as bodies of water in Chattanooga, Seattle, and more.

Royer says he’s proud of the broad participant base that the annual race has built, but more than that, he’s thrilled to continue the tradition of celebrating our riverfront with fellow Memphians.

“We just want to keep the tradition of the Outdoors Inc. Canoe and Kayak Race,” says Royer. “We’re on the largest river in the North American continent. When it rains in Yellowstone National Park, it flows through Memphis. And we’re just very proud of our canoe and kayak event and of our river.”

Outdoors Inc. Virtual Canoe and Kayak Race, participate from your favorite body of water, June 12th-14th, free to register, $20 for T-shirt, visit outdoorsinc.com for registration information.

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Everyday Conversation: Unapologetic’s “What You Doin, Nothin?”

More than a month ago, local hip-hop record label Unapologetic introduced a series of comical skits and interviews called “What You Doin, Nothin?” on YouTube and on its Unapologetic World app. In the series, hosts A Weirdo From Memphis (AWFM) and Cameron Bethany cover a range of topics with special guests that were originally filmed in 2017.

“Initially, we had plans lined up to release episodes with large platforms,” says AWFM. “But every time we would get things going, things would fall through the cracks and never work in our favor. And then, of course, COVID-19 happened, and it just created a virtual environment where we could take the time and we could do it and push it on our own.”

So far, seven episodes have been released, featuring interviews — “Shaved” features Project Pat, and “Eyebrow Meat” features MonoNeon — and skits, as seen in “Master Drill Sergeant” featuring Tutweezy. According to AWFM and Bethany, the inspiration for this series came from natural conversations and jokes share Catherine Elizabeth Patton

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d between them and the rest of the Unapologetic crew.

“Sometimes, we’d be having conversation, and one day, AWFM, myself, and IMAKEMADBEATS were in the studio, and we were talking about past experiences,  and we had the idea to just record our conversations,” says Bethany.

Before filming each episode, the behind-the-scenes crew would help AWFM and Bethany brainstorm conversational topics and would place them on a wheel for the hosts to spin. “Whichever one it lands on, Cam and I will immediately go off the cuff with whoever we’re talking to, just to keep it organic and not premeditated,” says AWFM.

According to Bethany and AWFM, getting out of their comfort zones and switching to a new mode of entertainment was a little intimidating at first. But once they got the hang of things, they knew they had something special in the works.

“It started out as something fun, and the closer we got to finishing it out, we got to thinking, this is really turning out to be something serious,” says Bethany. “And I could see the potential in it. And we just held onto it. We knew what we had once we put it on paper. We wanted to give it our best shot. And none of us really knew what we were doing. None of us are comedians or TV personalities or anything like that. We’re just learning every day that who we are is way more than we think we are.”

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AWFM adds, “Even the small things that you don’t think about, like where your eyes are looking and where they’re going to appear, like they’re looking at the camera, all of that. You can kind of see it from like the first episode to the end, how we got good at on-camera chemistry. But it definitely was experimental. And it’s always going to be experimental, just because we focus on other art forms as our main situations. So with that being said, every time we do this, it’s going to be a new feel-around every time, because this isn’t what we normally do or practice on the regular.”

Regardless, the two say they feel like the overall reception over the series has gone very well.

“We kind of second-guessed ourselves, and we didn’t know what to expect,” says Bethany. “But we garnered around 2,000-3,000 views within the first 24-48 hours. For us, it’s just things like the crowd or the audience enjoying what’s coming from it.”

AWFM adds, “The day after an episode will drop, friends reach out or have opinions on a topic. Because we did it three years ago, a lot of times we don’t remember what we were even talking about. So, it’s just exciting for us sometimes seeing what we said in an episode and what our opinions were back then. It’s been pretty cool to have conversations about it and laugh at it all.”

The series is more than halfway to the end of its staggered release, with only about three or four more new episodes left to air. Although Bethany and AWFM don’t reveal much about what we can expect to see in the remaining episodes, AWFM does admit that viewers will have the opportunity to meet a non-human, but “memorable,” friend of theirs in one of the final episodes. The hosts say that when COVID-19 ends, they hope to pick up where they left off and film another season, possibly incorporating viewer participation by asking for topic idea submissions from the audience.

In the meantime, Bethany and AWFM say that the emergence of COVID-19 has given them extra time to pursue and follow up on other facets of their creativity, which continues with Unapologetic’s mission.

“I think some of our best songs and music video-based content have come from this,” says AWFM. “And just living in the moment has allowed this show to get created, and I think we can walk away from it with more talent, more versatility, and just an open mind. It can be discouraging when you don’t know what’s possible or what might be going too far. And a big thing about Unapologetic is there’s no such thing as too far; [we] never put a box around what we could do or what we couldn’t do. And this show is a very big exercise of that.”

Episodes are released every Monday. Download the “Unapologetic World” app on your Android or Apple device to tune in, free.

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Pass the Kimbap: Salt|Soy’s Virtual Cocktail Dinner

CREDIT: Nick Scott

This Thursday, enjoy the flavors of Asian cuisine from the comfort of your own home during a virtual cocktail dinner presented by Salt|Soy and special partners Alchemy, Tattersall Distillery, West TN Crown, and Joe’s Wine & Liquor.

Salt|Soy is a sushi pop-up that was founded in 2016 by Alchemy owner Nick Scott, out of his love and passion for crafting Asian cuisine, which he discovered during years of experience as a sushi chef for Do Sushi and Bluefin.

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Nick Scott’s Salt|Soy brings you virtual sushi.

“It’s been something that I’ve always loved to do, and if I had a specialty, that would be it,” he says.

In the past, Scott has hosted regular sushi pop-ups and collaborative cocktail dinner events at Alchemy and at Puck Food Hall, but when COVID-19 put a wrench in his plans for future events, he quickly got to work planning virtual experiences to showcase his and others’ culinary talents.

As hosts walk viewers through what went into the Korean- and Japanese-inspired menu, attendees can expect to savor the flavor of saké-infused cocktails crafted by Alchemy with menu items such as sunomono (Japanese cucumber salad) and kimbap (Korean sushi) with a unique twist.

Nick Scott

“We’re going to be incorporating bulgogi into the kimbap,” he says.

Scott says he is thrilled to be able to continue bringing people together, albeit virtually, to enjoy dinner and drinks while supporting small or local businesses.

“We’re experiencing a culture shift, and no one knows what that’s going to end up looking like,” says Scott. “So we wanted to bring people together without bringing people together and provide an experience like you would sitting at a long table with everybody. And this gives people a chance to learn something new about unique ingredients or local products.”

Salt|Soy Virtual Cocktail Dinner Featuring Cocktails By Alchemy, Thursday, May 28th, pick up at Alchemy at 6 p.m., dinner at 6:45 p.m., $70.

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MCA Hosts Final BFA Exhibition Online

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‘The Station’ by Emily Warren, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 36″

Earlier this month, Memphis College of Arts’ final graduating class attended the school’s very last commencement ceremony, albeit in a virtual setting. An especially unprecedented and poignant moment in itself, that was not the only final tradition the now-shuttered arts college had to take online.

Toward the end of every semester, each graduating class contributes works of art to a final BFA exhibition, which is typically held on campus grounds. This year, however, the exhibition, entitled “Intrepidly Yours,” is being featured on MCA’s 2020 BFA website, featuring works from 33 students ranging in media and genres from comics books to animations to sculptural works.

“Every semester, Tom Lee, who’s one of our professors and who is tasked with working with the seniors, and I worked with the students from the first week of the semester getting this together,” says Olivia Wall, coordinator of external engagement for MCA. “We were about halfway through the process when everything went a little crazy. The students had done half of the work, but then all of a sudden, we had to very quickly shift to working with the students to make sure that whatever they were making could come to fruition online.”

To pull off the final exhibition, Wall and Lee worked with students and their advisors to develop plans to make sure they were able to get their final BFA contributions finished, despite possible lack of materials and space. Larry D. Springfield, Jr.

‘The Shaman of Oz’ by Larry D. Springfield, Jr., 2019, digital illustration, 14 x 11″

“For the most part, every single student was able to have their work done in a way that they wanted it to,” she says. “I know there were a few students who maybe had to do a couple less things than they were planning just because they weren’t able to get materials or they weren’t able to make sculptures at home.”

Despite the challenges, students were still able to develop works pertaining to their degrees in sculpture, painting and drawing, illustration, graphic design, comics, metals, and animation.

Wall, who is an alumna of MCA herself, says that she remembers the importance of participating in her senior art show, and while MCA’s final graduating class did it a little differently this semester, they’re still getting the experience, plus some new skills for the future.

“This is just like a traditional show,” she says. “It is something for their resume. It is a professional experience. And, differently from an in-person show, whereas that’s a whole different way of working with a gallery, there are so many galleries and museums that are switching to online. And even how students are applying for jobs is going to be more online-focused. This gave them the opportunity to learn how to submit files digitally and how to size and format their work so that it translates well on the internet. I think those are skills that are very important, particularly with the situation at hand.”

“Intrepidly Yours: The Spring 2020 BFA Exhibition” is on view until February 2021 through mca2020bfa.com.

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Happy Dance: Online Zumba Classes with David Quarles

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David Quarles, a jack of all trades who’s well-known for his coveted IV by David jewelry line, has been teaching Zumba classes for the last 10 years, leading private lessons for St. Jude employees as well as teaching public classes at Jack Robinson Gallery each week.

When COVID-19 hit, Quarles was quick to transition to online classes, hosting his first virtual Zumba class on March 19th.

“It went well,” says Quarles. “I had a total of 69 people who joined in. Before, we averaged around 35 people for each class at Jack Robinson Gallery.”

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David Quarles (left)

Due to increase in demand, Quarles has expanded the class schedule to four days a week, and he says that broadening availability of classes has attracted new and former students from around the world, including Kuwait and Mexico.

“Now that I’m offering these classes online, I’ve had a surge of people who used to take classes seven years ago join in,” says Quarles. “It’s nice to be able to reconnect with everyone, and it’s a good way to stay connected, because we formed such a tight-knit community and a lot of friendships were formed.”

Quarles mainly teaches basic Zumba, dancing to a variety of Latin and World Music, including Samba, Afrobeat, Salsa, and Merengue. He says that Zumba can be a great way of burning 400-650 calories while forgetting everything that’s been going on, if only for an hour.

“It’s a good, happy exercise, and by the time you finish the class, you don’t really know that you’ve gotten in a workout other than your sweat, because you’ve had so much fun,” says Quarles. “It’s so beneficial now, because we’re bombarded with so much confusing news. It’s a good way for us to connect and have a sense of normalcy.”

Thursday, May 14th, 6:30 p.m., Saturday, May 17th, 1 p.m., Monday, May 18th, 6:15 p.m., $5; Wednesday, May 20th, at 1 p.m., $3; Email elmulatollego@gmail.com indicating which class you’d like to join; Payable through Cash App ($DAVIDQIV) and Venmo (@DAVIDQUARLESIV). Free class available on Friday, May 15th, at 5:30 p.m., in partnership with Memphis Medical District Collaborative; Search “David Quarles” on eventbrite.com to register.