Founder Of Downtown Greens Brings Popular Talk Show Back Home

FREDERICKSBURG, VA — Laura Shepherd, host of the popular Laura Shepherd Show on Facebook and founder of area nonprofit Downtown Greens, brought her show back home to Fredericksburg Sunday.

The one-day special event was filmed live on location at the organization that she founded in 1995. Although Shepherd generally broadcasts from Gulfport, Florida, there are hometown heroes everywhere. The show represents a homecoming of sorts for Shepherd, who called Fredericksburg home for 30 years.

The show was broadcast live on the Facebook home of her show, @TheLauraShepherdShow.Filmed in front of a live audience, Laura’s show is a fixture in the Gulfport community she now calls home, bringing in leading local businesses, nonpofits and musicians to create an hour’s worth of good news every other Sunday morning.

“It’s magical to bring the show to Downtown Greens. We hope to see you in the live audience and help raise the vibrational level of the universe,” said Shepherd. “We’re delighted to have the good will and respect of both my former and current communities.”

For this special event, Laura hosted renowned vibraphonist Harry Wilson, who has been dazzling fans for more than three decades with his unique jazz stylings on the vibraphone. Also joining Shepherd was Tamara Villegas, owner and pastry chef of The Frenchman’s Corner, a local favorite serving up sweets and other delicacies.

Founded in 1995 behind Shepherd’s former home on Charles Street, Downtown Greens promotes environmental care by preserving two urban garden areas, using sustainable gardening methods, teaching children through a weekly garden club, and raising bees with the Urban Bees program. Approaching its 25th anniversary, Downtown Greens is currently headed by Sarah Perry.

“We were so excited to have The Laura Shepherd Show filmed live in the garden Sunday. Not only because Laura co-founded the garden and there’s so much of her here, but also because it’s a really interesting show,” said Perry, executive director of Downtown Greens.

“I am invested in real good music and real good people doing real good things. We’re enjoyed seeing old friends and new visitors to this beautiful garden space on Sunday,” said Shepherd.

Visit Shepherd online and on Facebook to follow her live shows. You may also support the spreading of good news on her show by contributing to her on Patreon.