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Miss Charlotte & Andy

As a children's musical duo, Miss Charlotte and Andy have delighted audiences around the Pacific Northwest, at such venues as Northwest Folklife Festival, the Oregon Country Fair and Laurelhurst Community Center Summer Concert Series. They also collaborated on Charlotte's award-winning children's music album, A Spoonful of Songs, which received rave reviews on Amazon.

 

Thistlewood Musical Puppets

Thistlewood Musical Puppets is a delightful performance troupe which brings together Charlotte and Andy's collective performance experience with the whimsical imagination and modern sensibility of Charlotte's 13 year old daughter, Ella.

  • Charlotte Thistle (vocals, puppets, guitar, ukulele, writing, directing, stage & costume design),
  • Andy Short (vocals, guitar)
  • Ella Archer (vocals, puppets, ukulele, writing, stage & costume design)

Charlotte has a BA in music and a professional background in dance and theatre as well as over 20 years experience teaching music to children. Andy has a professional background in music.

Lachlan the Leprechaun (2024)

For 2024, we are mounting a brand new puppet play about Lachlan, a mischievious leprechaun, featuring traditional Irish music. Stay tuned for more details!

Past Performances

The Mixed-Up Pets (2023)

 In 2023, we created and performed this humorous original play based on characters in Old Norse mythology, featuring traditional Scandinavian folk music.

Once upon a time, so the story goes, the Norse Gods and Goddesses were kids - and they all had pets. But one day, they woke up to find that something had gone terribly wrong! (Video footage coming soon.)

Luna and Julia (2020-2022)

This original puppet play is based on the book Luna and Me by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw. We performed it in various venues between 2020-2022, including Anna's Little Farm in Seattle, WA, and the Mighty Tiny Puppet Theater at the Oregon Country Fair.

"Charlotte has a gift for turning songs into story - her own creative originals, and her tweaks of such traditional staples as "Itsy Bitsy Spider" and "Rub-A-Dub-Dub."

- Lynne Heffley, Parents' Choice, 2016

Photo of Miss Charlotte & Andy performing Three Little Pigs Rap Charlotte Thistle Photo from an article about Miss Charlotte published in Parent Map