Born and raised in Milton, New York with an upbringing in musical theater and the performing arts, Lucas Neil is the youngest son of founding member and long time drummer of ‘The Make’, Jeffrey Johnson. While Johnson’s other children went on to find vocations in sensible fields, Lucas sought the company of trees, books, and day dreams.

Neil’s musical style, an acoustic blend of Americana and indie-folk, has a palpable sense of spiritual symbolism, storytelling, atmosphere, and gratitude for life.

Neil combines tastes of the great singer/songwriters of years past like James Taylor and Bob Dylan with the new-age musicality of acts like Gregory Alan Isakov, Blind Pilot, and Buck Meek.

Most important to the creation and experience of his music, Neil says, is an intimate relationship with our natural world, meaning the elements and creatures in our environment as well as our own psyche, bodies, and souls.

Neil has appeared on bills with Ryan Montbleau, Josh Rouse, Kat Wright, the Wolff Sisters and has been featured in such events as the Rhode Island Folk Fest, Hartbeat Music Festival, Blackbear Music Festival, Mystic Folkways, River Glow Arts Festival, and Rhode Island’s Conserfest, an arts festival that raises proceeds for the National Nature Conservancy.

Neil also has a side project with musician friends Olivia Charlotte and Sandy Allen called ‘Undercover Cameo’ which revolves around the combination of his songwriting and live musical improvisation.