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.
Very recent notes TO we have received~
Beaufort, SC Soireee
Wedding Booking over 1 year out!
Wedding Booking over 1 year out!
EMAILS & TEXTS WE LOVE TO GET:
May 10, 2025
Saturday night we played in Beaufort, SC for a fantastic gala event.
"Andrew,
We could not have had a more professional, passionate, talented and engaged band.
Thank you so much jumping in to aide the live auction and thank you to your band members for their spirit, talent and gracious personalities.
We have never had a chorus line at any of our past 40+ Soirées! 
A definite testament to you and your magnificent band and vocals.
Please share our appreciation and admiration.
With grateful appreciation,
Lise "
AND......"Andrew...You and your ensemble were as good as it gets. I considered it a privilege to listen to you all."
AND....."Andrew...I have been to almost all the soiree's our society has put on over the past 25 years and your band was the best entertainment yet."
AND...."Andrew, the Big Band was awesome! We’re still receiving so many thank-yous and grand compliments for the event from our attendees and volunteers – ‘blown away!
Big hugs all around!!"
Thanks everyone. The band had a blast too!
Wedding Booking over 1 year out!
Wedding Booking over 1 year out!
Wedding Booking over 1 year out!
EMAILS WE LOVE TO GET.
May 5, 2025
The following note is from the mother of the groom. How cool it is to be so appreciated!!!!
Hi, Andrew!
THE 3rd MCLEOD son, Scott, proposed to his girlfriend, Ashley, on Saturday. We can't have a wedding without your band, so we'd like to know which Fridays or Saturdays you might be available in March, April, or May of 2026. Scott and Ashley would like to be married in Charleston, but they haven't chosen a venue yet.
Would you please let me know when you might be able to play in Charleston?
Thanks very much!
Gay
Hired for 14 years in a row!
Wedding Booking over 1 year out!
Hired for 14 years in a row!
Some people just know how to make your day. I received such a nice message from Mr. Charles Haigler yesterday. In the note to me he had pictures of many of the men from the past 14 years who were Kings & Phantom Hosts of this dazzling Alabama Mardi Gras Ball we play every year. Underneath their pictures it said "Andrew Thielen Big Band fan club." WOW! Every one of these gentlemen had the responsibility to produce a ball for 1600 to 2000 people in a huge civic arena. Each of these men are highly regarded in Montgomery, AL. Charles Haigler has his own beautiful new Chevrolet-Chrysler-Dodge- Jeep car dealership called Greenville Automotive Group. Davis H. Smith is a Partner with Smith and Bradley Tax Lawyer Law Firm. Henry Moore is a VP of a wealth advisor Group and Carlyle Chandler heads his own real estate company. To say they are a fan of my big band is a great honor for me. I love em all like brothers and continually tell everyone....you have no idea how classy and charming, well dressed and polite, sincere and warm----Alabama people are. I wish we played many more events in that wonderful state. Alabama gentlemen and ladies both treat us so well and I cannot wait to return. Next year the Mardi Gras ball will be on Valentine's Day. Maybe if you know the right peeps and are real lucky...we will see you there.
Charles Kelley of Lady Antebellum sang with us then posted on facebook & instagram how he loved this band!