Lucas Ashby

Lucas Ashby is a Percussionist, Drummer, Cellist, and Educator based in Washington, DC. Having appeared on dozens of recordings featuring artists from around the globe, Lucas brings together elements of his background in Brazilian, Hindustani, and Afro-Caribbean percussion- along with a lifelong passion for American Jazz- to find and invent new sounds.

Since 2010, Ashby has been the percussionist with Big Mean Sound Machine, a powerhouse horn-driven afro-funk fusion band. With 3 critically acclaimed full-length albums, the band tours regularly all over the country, with their latest, "Runnin' For The Ghost" arriving April 7th, 2017.
Visit www.bigmeansoundmachine.com for more info & tour dates!

Born into a family of world musicians, Lucas traveled the globe with his parents, trombonist, percussionist & producer Jay Ashby, and Brazilian vocalist Kenia, and developed a hunger for the melodies and rhythms he heard abroad. As a result, his musical palette has grown increasingly diverse. In addition to performing from an early age with his parents, he has appeared both on stage and on records with some of the top musicians in the realms of jazz and world music, including Paquito D’Rivera, the New York Voices, Jamey Haddad, Roger Humphries, Dwayne Dolphin, Poogie Bell, Steve Davis, Colter Harper, Yao Foli "Cha Cha" Augustine, Simone Baron & Arco Belo, Cissa Paz, and many more.