Though he began his career on the trap set, performing with such well known Dallas bands as funkmeisters Buster Brown, Cajun gumbo Dennis Cavalier and classic jazz Chuck Rainey, long-time Dallas drummer Eric Stuer made his name as a professional facilitator of live rhythm-based events.



Biography:

Eric Stuer is a percussionist with a busy career which spans four decades. He is fluent on drum set in many styles and fluent on drum set in many styles. Eric is also a composer, arranger, and electronic looping enthusiast plus facilitator of live rhythm based events.



Since 1994, Eric Stuer has been involved in the drum circle scene, and has trained with Arthur Hull, with Kalani in his "Drum Circle Music" method, and in the Remo Health Rhythms protocol with Dr. Barry Bittman and Christine Stevens.



Eric Stuer's pro drumming career started with drum set, when he was in the ninth grade. By age 16 he was opening in Houston for national acts like Little Feat, Cheech and Chong, Big Mama Thornton, and so on.



During the course of his years at the drums, Eric Stuer has found himself playing onstage with artists like Freddy King, B.W. Stevenson, David "Fathead" Newman, Gary Stewart, Johnny Paycheck, Vince Gill, Chuck Rainey, Charlie Daniels, Eric Tagg, Michael Gott, Hans York, Freddie Jones, Benita, Dallas Symphony violinist Tom Demer, and numerous other artists.



If you expand this list to include acts for whom Eric Stuer has opened, or with whom he has been on the same bill, it includes names like Garth Brooks, Clint Black , George Jones , Buck Owens, Billy Preston, B.B. King, the Coasters, the Ohio Players, Richie Havens, Average White Band, Andy Kaufman, Brooks and Dunn, Etta James, Trisha Yearwood, Leroy Parnell, Jack DeJohnette, the Meters, Dr. John, Tower of Power, Eddie Harris, Taj Mahal, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, and so on.



In addition to Rhythmweb kids programs in schools and libraries, Eric Stuer appears on the Addison TX supper club circuit, He also performs New Orleans and Cajun style music from time to time with Dennis Cavalier and Texas Gumbo. And since 2003 Eric Stuer has been the Sunday drummer/percussionist at the Unity Church of Dallas.



In June 2008 Eric Stuer, 55, died in a car crash along with his wife Deborah, 53, who was driving. A tire blew out while driving on Interstate 49 south of Shreveport, sending the car out of control and causing it to roll several times. Eric was sleeping in the back. Both Eric and Deborah were ejected from the vehicle. Son Jules, 26, suffered minor injuries.