He Didn't Know His Daughter Could Sing: Lucia Field and The Wiggles Come to Macon on August 15th

If you have ever spent any time around a toddler, you likely know about the behavior that is described well by the term the wiggles: unbounded energy that often causes the very young to squirm and run about, be silly, and act impulsively.

Australian children’s music group The Wiggles named themselves after this very behavior. The groups’s hit songs like “Hot Potato,” “Fruit Salad,” and “Get Ready to Wiggle” encourage movement and engagement to use such energy in positive and educational ways.

If you haven’t heard of The Wiggles yet, then it is very likely that you haven’t had any young children living in your household for a while. The Wiggles were formed in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, in 1991. Starting with small performances, they have since gained a worldwide audience, sold over 20 million DVDs and 7 million CDs, and performed for an average of over 1 million people each year, according to Wikipedia.

I sat down recently with a newer member of The Wiggles, Lucia Field, to learn more about their upcoming performance in Macon as well as what it is like to be a member of one of the most popular children’s groups of all time.

This live performances of The Wiggles' "Rattlin' Bog featuring the Tree of Wisdom" gives parents a preview of what to expect at the Macon show

The Price of Fame

After The Wiggles became in demand around the world, the Blue Wiggle, Anthony Field, was performing a lot with the rest of the group while his little girl Lucia grew up without her dad in her day-to-day life.

"Quite a bit of my childhood was missed by dad because he had to work," Lucia Field said early in our interview, "He was all over the place - also bringing joy to other families."

Anthony Field is one of the founding members of The Wiggles, and he spent much of Lucia's childhood on the road.

She spent much of it at boarding school in Sydney, training at the Australian Ballet School. Their lives ran on parallel tracks, rarely intersecting.

Then the pandemic hit. The world stopped. Lucia came home. And she and her father finally got to spend some quality time together.

"When he'd come back home," she said, "it didn't feel like that. It just felt like dad was home."

That quiet rediscovery has become the unlikely origin story of one of the most endearing chapters in Wiggles history. Lucia Field, now 22, is the Blue Wiggle alongside her father, making the first parent-child duo in the group's history. And this August, they're bringing several members of the Field family to Macon to perform.

How COVID Brought the Field Family Closer

When COVID forced the entertainment industry to pause, it gave Anthony and Lucia Field a whole new chapter as father and daughter.

Anthony had missed so much that he had no idea Lucia could sing, and she hadn’t even imagined becoming a Wiggle.

"Funny enough, my dad wasn't even the one who asked me to join the Wiggles," she said.

When the group was reshuffling its lineup, it was Alex, the sound engineer, who noticed her voice after she'd done some backing vocals and made the suggestion. "Then Dan was like, yeah, sure. So I walked on in."

Lucia grew up slowly realizing that her family was unusual. "It actually did take me quite a bit when I was younger to realize that other people knew who he was," she said. "I remember I was in primary school, in the playground, and dad came to pick me up and all the kids swarmed to the car. And I was like, “Hey, how do you know who my dad is?"

When asked whether her upbringing bore any resemblance to that of a rock star's child, with the absences, the celebrity, and the strange double life, she laughed and ran with it. "I guess the Wiggles are a rock group for children, if you think about it," she said.

The comparison is a strange one to make for a group with such humble beginnings. Three of The Wiggles' founders, Greg Page, Murray Cook, and Anthony Field, were all preschool teachers who understood early childhood development very well.

But the scale of what they built has the trappings of genuine rock stardom: world tours, devoted multigenerational audiences, and now, a daughter stepping into the family trade.

“[He] and my mum encouraged us to pursue any outlet that we wanted," Lucia said of her parents' approach. "And it just happens that all of us are very creative."

Her brother is a musician; her sister does acting. She says nobody was pushed towards creative fields.

"If or when I have kids," she added, "I will always encourage them to pursue what they love, what makes them feel good. If that happens to be Wiggles, then welcome to the lineage of Blue Wiggles!”

How The Wiggles Have Brought Families Closer Together

The Wiggles have a multigenerational audience unlike almost anything else in children's entertainment. Parents who grew up with the four founding members are now bringing their own children to shows. That continuity isn't accidental. It's the product of a consistent ethos that Lucia, for all that she's new to the stage, has clearly absorbed deeply.

"The ethos of the Wiggles has always been the same," she said. "It's always been about the children and easy-listening music that's also educational. And I think that's why the Wiggles has gone on for as long as it has, because parents feel that they can trust us with that, which does really mean a lot."

Part of honoring that trust, she said, is expanding who sees themselves on stage. "There was a young Ethiopian girl who came to the show, and she left a beautiful note about how much it meant to her to see a woman of color on stage performing."

The current eight-member lineup is the most diverse in the group's history. "If you can see it, you can be it," Lucia said.

How Lucia Field Changed the Wiggles

She's also part of an effort to bring her own heritage into the show. Lucia is Greek (her mother spoke the language at home, though her father didn’t), and she didn't grow up fully fluent.

Working with the Hellenic Foundation, she developed Learning Greek with Lucia, a children's album designed to help families engage with language and culture even when only one parent is a heritage speaker.

"I'm very thankful for that," she said, "because I got to embrace my culture, which is something I didn't get to do before."

Ballet is another strand of identity woven into her performance. Trained since age three, accepted to the Australian Ballet School at thirteen, Lucia brings classical movement into the show in ways that resonate with young audiences.

"If I put my arms up in fifth, nearly guaranteed every single time, every child is going to put their arms up in fifth and all the way around," she said. "So I think ballet will always be a part of the Wiggles."

New Horizons for the Wiggles

If there was any doubt that the Wiggles have genuinely expanded their creative horizons during their long existence, the Wiggle Up Giddy Up country album, featuring Dolly Parton, Orville Peck, Dasha, Lainey Wilson and others, puts it to rest. The album is, as Lucia put it with complete seriousness, "full of bangers, gotta say it."

Asked whether she was a fan of American country music going in, she didn't hesitate. "I absolutely love American country music, especially obviously Dolly and Orville. When I found out that we were collaborating with Orville, I screamed. And I don't think my dad knew that I knew who he was."

The Wiggles and Dolly Parton collaborated for the song "Friends" in 2025

The album opened doors. "I started listening to Lainey Wilson because we collaborated with her; I hadn't known about her, and then we went to her show when she was in Australia. Oh my goodness, that woman, her voice is wow."

The process of making it, she added, was grueling and worth every hour. "We put so, so many hours into all of our albums, but especially the country album. So when we had the finished product, it just felt so good."

She's quick to credit her father with most of the big ideas. When a previous interview attributed heavy involvement in the 100 educational songs project to her, she gently corrected the record. "You give me a lot more credit than I deserve," she said. "I will give all the credit to my dad, honestly."

But she doesn't undersell what it means to hear her own voice in the world. "It is extremely surreal. I don't think I'll ever get over it. It's really crazy to hear my voice in something, or to see somebody dancing to it, or to see a child in a costume dressed as us. I never would have imagined it."

The Wiggles Come to Macon

The Wiggles bring their Tree of Wisdom Spectacular to the Macon City Auditorium on Saturday, August 15, 2026, with a single performance at 6:00 p.m. The show features the full eight-member lineup, including Anthony and Lucia as the Blue Wiggles, with Lucia's cousin Dominic as the Tree of Wisdom, along with live instruments, suit characters, a DJ set, and stage-door access that is a rarity nowadays.

"Before we head off, we take our time to meet pretty much every single person," Lucia said. When the Wiggles came to the States recently, the crowds at the stage door were large enough that organizers put up barricades. "We really try to go down the line and take our time and take photos with everybody and meet everyone."

Families are encouraged to bring drawings and posters. The Wiggles collect them from the audience before their performance and display them on stage.

For parents uncertain whether to make the trip, Lucia had a simple pitch: "I think it could be a life-changing experience. I never went to shows when I was a kid, but I can imagine if there was a show just for me, that I would just come out of there feeling like I was on top of the world."

Tickets to see The Wiggles during their Macon stop on Saturday, August 15th are available on ticketmaster.com, starting at $50.80 at the time of publication.

Just in case you want to see The Wiggles twice or aren’t able to make the Macon show, the music group also plays Atlanta's Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre the following night, Sunday, August 16th.