Impact Īlthough they were initially a cover band performing only in local venues around Atlanta, their recordings uploaded to YouTube gave them a much greater audience and impact. On April 10, 2021, four members sang the national anthem for a Major League Baseball game at Atlanta's Truist Park. On March 19, 2021, their polka-rendition of the theme song for the ABC News show World News Now was featured on the show. The group took a hiatus in 2018, then in 2019, in response to their growing online fan base and also because of the COVID-19 pandemic, posted more cover performances on YouTube, as Bo Emerson of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote, 'from the vocal harmony aisle of the classic rock superstore.' including Crosby, Stills & Nash, the Beach Boys, the Eagles, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt and Todd Rundgren. The recordings were made with video using multiple cameras by Terry Heinlein. īetween 20, the group performed about 40 summer concerts in the Atlanta area, capturing at least one concert a year on video, from which individual songs were posted on YouTube. Chase Truran joined in 2015, recommended by the Mustangs' adult female vocalist, Amy Wallace, who taught music at a local school. Fellow Mustangs John Pike and Toby Ruckert replaced Conort in 2011. The experiment worked, so the group began a small number of additional shows in 2010. Together with his daughter Samantha (Sammie), then 15, and a friend from their church choir, Margaret (Maggie) Adams, then 16, Tim added friend Darwin Conort and fellow Mustangs musician Scott King, and performed one concert in their hometown of Smyrna, an Atlanta suburb. The group formed in early 2010 as a side project of Tim Purcell's established cover band, The Mustangs, which performed at community and corporate events in the Atlanta, Georgia, area for many years prior.

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