Conrad Ray Hicks

Ray directing our start at Picacho Peak event

Ray was one of those special people who would go the "extra mile" to help people. He also played the heck out of the Eb cornet, no mean feat that!

This is Connie Ray's cousin, Barbara Rose Hicks-Love. My daughter Christine is helping me look up family from way back, and we, sadly, found Connie Ray has passed. So many wonderful memories with Phillis, Beverly and Connie Ray. My husband Merl passed away in April of 2014, so I guess we'll all be meeting again on the other side. With Love, Barbara Rose

My wife Jan and I met Ray while we were re-enacting Co. "I" 14th U.S. Infantry Camp Date Creek A.T. for Fort Verde Days in October of 1997. In my research we were looking for a piece of music that I thought was "PUT ME UNDER THE DAISIES" Ray kindly took the title and within a week sent me a copy of the sheet music. He found that I was incorrect in the title and that it was actually "UNDER THE DAISIES" We had planned to get together for some field trips but we never worked it out. A really...

Ray's sense of humor:
We have received a request from the audience, but we are going to keep playing anyway.
Contributions go to a very good cause, us!

Band Ray started in Tucson is still going strong in 2009. Thanks Ray(& Nancy)for enriching our lives so much.

Ray Hicks was an amazing go-getter with a profound curiosity for western history and the forgotten music of the American Brass Band Era. Serious, genuine, capable, attentive to detail, with an unpretentious good heartedness throughout. Not to mention a terrific soprano cornet player, a joy to hear! It was a priviledge to know and learn from Ray.

I remember Ray from his time with the 159th Army Band. Ray was always a friendly person and easy to talk to.

My association with Ray, the El Dorado Brass Band of Old Sacramento, (and that tongue and rope tension bass drum) was an immeasurably wonderful experience. He was a walking encyclopedia of American history and music. He will be missed.