Lucia Flores-Wiseman, the Seattle-area singer who became a household name on NBC's The Voice, is coming home for a free concert at Magnuson Park Amphitheater next Wednesday, August 19, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. The Mexican-American singer-songwriter headlines the latest stop in the city's Pop-Up Concerts in the Park series, bringing her blend of indie, folk, soul, jazz, and subtle rock to the park's outdoor stage.
The show is the latest installment of a summer-long series produced by the Seattle Parks and Recreation Facebook announcement, and it lands at a venue with plenty of local history behind it. According to the Seattle Parks Foundation, the 2026 Pop-Up Concerts in the Park series runs free every Wednesday evening from July 8 through August 26, hitting green spaces across the city including Jimi Hendrix Park, Seward Park Amphitheater, and Kubota Garden, with food trucks and family-friendly programming built into each stop.
Flores-Wiseman's path to a Wednesday night on a Seattle park stage runs through national television. During her blind audition on Season 27 of The Voice in February 2025, she sang Ángela Aguilar's “La Llorona” in Spanish and earned a four-chair turn, drawing praise from all four judges before choosing to join Adam Levine's team, as reported by American Songwriter.
From Maple Valley Stages to National TV
She kept climbing from there. Flores-Wiseman advanced through multiple televised rounds, including a Battle Round duet of “My Funny Valentine” that earned her a comparison to Lady Gaga from judge Michael Bublé, before finishing fourth overall on the season in May 2025, according to the Kent Reporter's coverage of her run on The Voice, filed by the Kent Reporter.
Long before the national spotlight, Flores-Wiseman was building a following close to home. She graduated from Tahoma High School in Maple Valley in 2020, where she sang in Chamber Choir and Jazz Choir, earned an associate degree from Green River College in 2021, and finished a bachelor's degree in communications, journalism, and public interest at the University of Washington in 2023, the Kent Reporter reports. She had also auditioned for American Idol across two seasons starting at age 16, shared a stage with Brandi Carlile, competed in MoPOP's 2024 Sound Off! showcase, and headlined Seattle's Chop Suey, according to UW Magazine's account of her career before The Voice. Her influences, per the Facebook announcement from Seattle Parks and Recreation, include Carlile, Amy Winehouse, and Norah Jones, and she has been performing intimate, emotionally driven shows since 2018.
A Homecoming Backed by Local Youth Talent
Opening the show is Samweli, a Seattle-based singer and songwriter whose sound blends hip-hop, R&B, neo-soul, and rock. Samweli previously competed in MoPOP's 2025 Sound Off! youth showcase, a program MoPOP describes as a premiere Pacific Northwest competition for young musicians, per MoPOP. Every concert in this summer's Pop-Up series opens with a performer from The Residency, a Seattle hip-hop youth artist development program launched in 2015 by MoPOP, Arts Corps, and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis that gives low-income youth ages 16 to 19 artistic training, stipends, and performance opportunities, according to Big Day of Play.
Funding for the free series comes through a partnership between the nonprofit Seattle Parks Foundation, Seattle Parks and Recreation, and corporate sponsor Amazon, which has backed more than 50 park restoration and public space projects across Seattle since 2007. The 2025-2026 concert season also coincides with the Seattle Parks Foundation's 25th anniversary. The concert's promotional artwork was provided courtesy of Seattle Parks & Recreation and created by the design studio Invisible Creature.
Second-Largest Park Sets the Stage
Magnuson Park, the venue hosting Wednesday's show, spans 350 acres along Lake Washington in northeast Seattle, making it the city's second-largest public park after Discovery Park, according to the City of Seattle. The land once served as Naval Air Station Sand Point before its conversion into city parkland, and its historic military buildings now house several arts spaces, including the Sand Point Arts and Cultural Exchange, the Magnuson Park Gallery in Building 30, and community radio station SPACE 101.1 FM, per the Sand Point Arts and Cultural Exchange.
For Flores-Wiseman, the free Wednesday evening slot marks a return to the kind of local stage where her career first took shape, before the national attention that followed her run on The Voice. The concert is open to the public and runs from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Magnuson Park Amphitheater.
