Logan Miles Nix started playing drums at the age of ten.  He began receiving music instruction from local professionals soon after.

Upon entering middle school, Logan auditioned for and became a part of all the top groups as a sixth grader. He received many awards and accolades at local music festivals, including best jazz drum performance and best jazz improvisation two years in a row at the Albuquerque jazz festival and at the UNM jazz festival. Logan was also invited to play in the annual All City youth orchestra at the age of 12.

During Logan's high school years, he joined all available ensembles.  He excelled in Jazz band, Wind Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble, Pit Orchestra, and above all, Marching Band. Logan attended drum corps camps and clinics with the likes of Pat Amann (Blue Knights), Matt Savage (Bluecoats), Paul Rennick (Phantom Regiment, Carolina Crown, University of North Texas), and Jim Casella (Santa Clara Vanguard, Cavaliers).  In his freshman year Logan also played in a fairly busy local rock band. Every weekend Logan was opening for national acts such as Saosin, Rufio, No use for a name, Face to Face, and many others.  Logan was named section leader during his junior and senior years of high school and won awards such as "Best Tenor" and Captions for high percussion at the Northern Arizona University Marching Band Festival.  In his sophomore year of high school Logan began studying Percussion with college professor L. Scott Ney (UNM, Olivia Newton John, New Mexico Symphony Orchestra) at the University of New Mexico. There he studied techniques on timpani, marimba and other mallet instruments, all large and small concert percussion, and world percussion.  After a year of study with Prof. Ney, Logan made the All-State symphonic band, then the All-State Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Dr. Larry Livingston of USC) the year after that, ranking him 3rd in state high school standings for percussion. Logan graduated from Sandia High School with honors and received the John Phillip Sousa award for outstanding musical accomplishments and leadership. 

In 2005 Logan auditioned into the UNM School of Music and Percussion Studio and received full ride scholarships. Again, Logan kept very busy in every ensemble available to him, playing some very demanding classical and contemporary literature by Brahms, Copland, Debussy, Stravinsky, Mussorgsky, Schumann, Varese, Reich, and Cage among many.  In his fourth semester, Logan managed to place highest among the undergraduate percussion department in the prestigious UNM Wind Symphony.

In his third year of college, Logan had an opportunity to play with a locally based international act, The Pink Flamingos. Logan got the gig and never looked back, regularly playing in large metropolitan areas including Atlanta, Miami, New York City, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco and internationally in Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.  Logan performs for politicians, foreign ambassadors and dignitaries, heads of state, CEOs (Richard Branson, Joe Petrowski) and the like.   Logan regularly visits New York City to perform, attend clinics and to study with his friend and mentor, pianist Eric Doney (Keith and Scott Jarrett, Will Lee trio, David Johansen, Engelbert Humberdink, Phil Woods, Susanne Somers).  Logan is very in demand as a performer and educator and keeps a very busy playing and teaching schedule.  

          Logan is super excited to now be performing with Fat City.  He’s been looking forward to this for a long time. Come experience a deep and infectious groove!