Rebekah's Garth Brooks Wish

Seven years ago this November our daughter, Rebekah Faith Nickerson was granted a wish by the Make-A-Wish Foundation. She told them her wish was to go to a Garth Brooks concert. Trouble was, at the time she made her wish Garth was not doing concerts. We waited over a year to see what would happen. There were talks of just having her go to his home in Oklahoma for a visit. Then we found out he decided to come out of retirement and do a series of concerts in Kansas City, Missouri.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation had a limousine pick us up at our house and take us to the Peoria Airport. They flew us to Kansas City and put us up in a nice hotel. I told our sons, Ben and Logan, that I thought we would just be in a long line of people, take our turn, then move on. I was way off. Mr. Brooks treated us like royalty. We were taken back to his personal dressing room before the concert started where he talked to us like we had known each other for years. While he got dressed for the concert, he had his assistant take her into a side room filled with his cd's and tshirts and took her "shopping". In the meantime, his wife, Trisha Yearwood, had been on stage performing. She finished her set, came into the room and visited with us. We got pictures with both of them.
Then Mr. Brooks asked if we had some time the next day that we could come back. He asked Rebekah if she played and instrument and she replied "the drums". This was news to the rest of us. He said, "We want you to come back for our sound check tomorrow before the concert and you can play the drums!" Then it was time to go to the concert.
His concerts are like no concert I had ever been to. 50,000+ people on their feet for two hours singing every word to every song right along with him. Unbelievable! My dad bought a ticket to see the concert, and was in the audience somewhere. It blew his mind, and he went out afterwards and bought some Garth Brooks cd's of his own.
The next day we were shown in to the arena. Garth wasn't there right away, but the band was on stage practicing. They took Rebekah up onto the stage and let her play the drums. The band surrounded her and played the song, "Two Pina Coladas" (that's the song she said was her favorite) while she wailed away on the drums. It was priceless. Then she sat back down in front of the stage. A man entered wearing one of their security guard jumpers and sat next to Rebekah and put his arm around her. It was Garth. He led her up on the stage and they sang one song after another with her, giving her a microphone and having her parade around the stage with them. Then they sang "We Shall Be Free" where they all came to the front of the stage, hands raised for a big concert finish.
They came off of the stage, he let Rebekah keep a tambourine, set of drum sticks and the microphone she used. He told us he took the batteries out so she couldn't turn it on during the concert. Then he invited us to go backstage to eat with the band, and to come back again for the concert that night. During the concert while singing the song "We Shall Be Free", he walked over to the side of the stage, looked for Rebekah and drew a heart on his chest and pointed to her.
We can't say enough for Make-A-Wish or for Garth Brooks and his people. It was priceless.

[@JamesBond-pb2qy]

Been following Garth since he started

[@heatherbiggs7428]

James Burdzinski Same here,James!

[@wahltowahl1]

Garth’s treatment of his fans has always made him a class act with huge kindness and sexy.

[@nanlev613]

OMG Janet sooooo sexy!!! I’ve always thought I’d be a wreck if I ever saw him in person!!!

[@rbk7876]

C'mon people there should be 1 million likes on this , this young lady is awesome great story, thank you Garth Brooks.

[@knk4ever83]

Precious girl!

[@timfountain1995]

This is why Garth is so well loved. He's nothing but a class act. Love Garth!

[@MrCharlesWidmore]

Brilliant, lots of love from Ireland and Rebekah is a great wee drummer also x

[@wilsone333]

Doesn't get much better than that! Awesome 👍👍

[@BrettVaa]

I've been a Garth fan my entire life. It doesn't surprise me that he'd do this, but it doesn't make it any less special that he did. I'm glad she got the opportunity to do such a thing. Thank you for sharing this story, I appreciate hearing about it. I hope Rebekah and the rest of your family are doing well. Will keep you guys in my thoughts and prayers. God bless you guys.

[@heatherbiggs7428]

It's stories LIKE THIS THAT MAKES ME GLAD I'M A MAJOR GB fan.

[@JamesBond-pb2qy]

My Daughters name is Rebecca Faith too. And she has Downs and had open heart surgery at 1yr old .she had 4 holes

[@matthewcarlon7122]

thank you so much for sharing this with the world, no other artist in this world will ever compare. I hope all is well with your family and will keep you in my prayers

[@bigguy2879]

She looked so happy

[@melissa-Ann]

Truly heartfelt and uplifting video!!! Wow!!! God bless you and your family!!!

[@CountrySingerWannabe]

People who become successful and then after the fact claim depression or the pressure is just too much need to watch this. When you accomplish all you set out to accomplish (if you are lucky to do so) what do you do? Simple; you give back.

[@tjsgotgbfever4699]

Thank you so much for sharing Rebekah's special, wonderful experience! And so glad to hear she was in Chicago as well! :)

[@ryanclark8431]

Loved this video of Rebekah and family. I met you guys at the theater showing of Garth from KC back in '07. I still have some of the pics in this video that were sent to me via email. Hope all is well and hope she can see him again on tour.

[@Psalm115.1]

Hi, Ryan, Rebekah and I saw Garth in Chicago last Sunday. Had a blast! He's still a force of nature!

[@heatherbiggs7428]

Scott Nickerson Agreed! GARTH 'S STILL THE MAN! !

[@heatherbiggs7428]

Thank you for what you do for your fans, Garth, LOVE YA!

[@EliteCupRacing88]

Wow. Very moving

[@jeraleewood5969]

You Tube Justin Timberlake and Garth, and that band singing Friends In Low Places! She will get a kick out of it!

[@JamesBond-pb2qy]

My Becca loves to sing and dance too lol

[@marybaker8582]

I am so glad that this beautiful young woman had this amazing experience.

[@joellines3420]

Wow wow that is a truly an amazing memory that this family will never forget personally I would like to thank Garth Brooks for making this possible

[@theonce-ler4098]

👍👍

[@dennisyounkin644]

I just found this video and I cant help but bring a smile!!!!! Outstanding and Congrats!!!!!!

[@ashleyshawnbusch201]

My daughter wants her make a wish to be meet garth and trisha im glad to see this

[@sergiocappi8444]

MUITOS ARTISTAS QUE NÃO TEM O SEU TALENTO CHEGAM AOS PÉS DE SUA BONDADE E HUMILDADE E SE ACHAM.

[@cowboy3321]

That Awsome 🙏🏼👍🏼😊

[@gregoryball9504]

Way to hit those skins, girl!

[@jacoblaczko4770]

I did make a wish

[@nanlev613]

Oh my god I would feel the same way- they have so much to do so to stop and give their attention to something completely unrelated to preparing for the concert is just so selfless!!! But that’s Garth and Trisha! They get it! My question is did your daughter choose the drums or did they ask her what instrument she wanted to play? Also did she choose the song? This reminds me of the incident with the woman who wanted Garth to autograph her sign at a concert but he ended up giving her his guitar. The woman had cancer and all she wanted was for Garth to autograph her sign but once he realized the situation he took her sign and gave her his guitar. She was so shocked she was just thinking ‘all I wanted was his autograph’ it was completely unexpected that he would keep the sign with him in his locker! But again this Garth! He goes above and beyond!

[@alanoelschlager6581]

This is why that Garth and Trisha are THE team!