About Us
We play EVERY TYPE of MUSIC including all your favorite songs!
This cover band keeps dancers on the floor all night and keeps audiences dazzled by playing variety music for wedding receptions, corporate parties and concerts. We are the best- Motown band, pop band, top 40 band, R&B band, swing band, jazz band, soul band, beach music band and funk band you have ever heard. We play music all over North and South Carolina regularly from Charleston to Asheville and from Greensboro to Wilmington. But we are also popular in Florida, Alabama, Virginia, Maryland and Georgia too.
(The Andrew Thielen Big Band is a veteran owned business. Andrew was a United States Marine Corps officer.)
The very best singers!
The best male and female vocalists found anywhere will bring the house down. We have soulful singers who are great on Motown party songs and R&B classics. We have party rockin rappers that bring the newest hits alive! And we have smooth American standards singers for the dinner hour too.
All Live Horns
No sequences & no tracks here. We perform everything live with 8 smoking horns playing the best of Motown, Rock, Pop, Swing and all the latest hits. You'll hear songs like 24 carat Magic, Uptown Funk, Happy, Wagon Wheel, You Are The Best Thing and more.
The BEST Band gets asked back year after year.
Here we are playing for the Governor of South Carolina at the annual Carolina Cup. The Governor's wife loves the band and they ask us back year after year to play for the Governor and Tom & Virginia Anne Mullikin. Tom was the commanding General of the SC State Guard.
We love to get the bridesmaids into the fun. I mean they need to be featured somehow for getting all those matching dresses, right?
Here we are playing a wedding at the Francis Marion hotel in Charleston for the McLeod family. They liked the band so much we played all THREE of their sons weddings.
Andrew Thielen Big Band & Charles Kelley
What a sensational night for the guests, the big band and Charles Kelley
What a fun night we had on October 11, 2024 in Cashiers, NC when Charles Kelley from Lady Antebellum or Lady A came up to sing with the big band. He wrote this on his Instagram and facebook accounts. " Love a little Lionel Richie when I get the chance. This band was so fun to sing and play with too". "Never thought I'd hear Wagon Wheel big band style but they made it work. Thanks to the band for letting me hop up and make some memories together. Did this for for you @dariusrucker. "
Charles Big Hit
"Need You Now" was a massive crossover hit and earned 4 Grammy's.
Loretta & Kimberly
Our vocalist's are always a hit and Charles remarked at how great they were as they picked up the background harmonies to rock the house.
We enjoyed Being the Band For Landau
America's Got Talent Winner performed with Andrew Thielen Big Band
January 4, 2022
Washington, DC
The Andrew Thielen Big Band will perform with America's Got Talent Winner (Season Six) Landau Eugene Murphy for a series of concerts in North & South Carolina.
Citing a need for top notch, A level talent, The Andrew Thielen Big Band was selected by the Allen Entertainment Agency in Washington DC for "Landau" concerts in the Carolinas and beyond. Also joining the show for some events will be the Voices of Classic Soul. ( Voices Of Classic Soul, the former lead singers of the Temptations, Platters, Drifters and Four Tops.)
The Andrew Thielen Big Band has also performed for Planet Hollywood's holiday show, The House of Blues, Governor Hogan (MD) Inaugural Ball, the Greenbrier Resort, The Carolina Cup, SC PBS television Special, the Coasters, at Mt Rushmore for the millennium celebration, both Democratic and Republican Conventions and the late Betty White's 90th birthday Party in Colonial Williamsburg.
Charles Kelley of Lady Antebellum sang with us then posted on facebook & instagram how he loved this band!