Debra Is Proud Of Her Two Children Who Are In The Military

Debra is proud of her two children who are in the military. Her son is in the Navy and her daughter is in the Coast Guard. Her daughter has been in for 13 years and her son has been in for 10 years. We honor them today for our Military Monday segment.

Debra, their mom, told us why they went into the service, "They wanted to protect everyone and just make sure that their lives meant something. That's the one thing that they both wanted more than anything is just to make sure that they matter and they made a difference."

Congrats to Debra's two kids as they are receiving a $100 Tampa Premium Outlets gift card.

Every Monday we honor a member of the military in Tampa Bay. Do you have someone in your life that is or has been in the military? Someone that you admire, a relative, a friend? Whoever it is that you want to spotlight. We want to hear from you and you can nominate someone right now by doing so HERE. The nomination process takes about five minutes. Once you nominate someone we will be in touch with you to schedule a call with you.

Top 5 Best Guitar Pull Moments.  We hope you will join us this year for the QYK Guitar Pull.  It is not only our favorite show of the year, but so many in the Tampa community have said the same thing.  This is the 8th year we have done this show for you.

If you don't know what a "guitar pull" is, it's an intimate show where all of the artists are on stage at the same time.  The artists will each play two songs, then a quick break and then two more songs.  The show lasts around 3 hours long, depending on the artists themselves.  Each artist stops down and talks about the song stories.  Sometimes they just talk about other stuff, but the crowd is always entertained and laughing.  You never know what they will say on stage at the QYK Guitar Pull, which makes it our favorite show of the year.  The show sells out every year.  It's not a dance show, majority of people in the audience sit in their seats, a great date night actually.

This years show will once again be at The Mahaffey Theater in downtown St. Petersburg on Sunday November 12th!  On stage this year is Scotty McCreery, and more!  There will be 5 artists on stage this year.    Stay tuned to find out who else will be joining the show each weekday morning at 8:20 the week of September 5th-8th.

It's crazy to think about some of the big names that have been on our Guitar Pull stage in the past.  Morgan Wallen, Sam Hunt, Kane Brown, Chris Young, Lee Brice, Chris Janson, Dustin Lynch, Charles Kelley, Big and Rich....and many more.  Majority of the artists want to be apart of our guitar pull because we use this to give back to our community.  Proceeds from the show help out the Bill Edwards Foundation for the Arts.

So hard to pick out some of the most memorable moments, but here is our top 5

Here is a video from 2021  and us having fun with the artists.

Someone asked Chris to sing this song - and so Chris decided to do it tonight. The very first time he sang Drunk Girl at a show was this QYK Guitar Pull and it was amazing!

Photo credit: Kathy Mosley

Morgan sat on stage next to Hardy and the boys had a great night - Morgan sang a bunch of his songs acoustically and we really enjoyed it!

Kane Brown was amazing at Guitar Pull

That year we had Dustin Lynch, Mitchell Tenpenny and more on stage, but I think Cam stole the show that year!