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Martin Luther King Jr Free Concert Series — Wingate Field, Brooklyn
The 2011 schedule will probably be announced late next June.
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August 9th: Aretha Franklin | 
August 2nd: Salt-N-Pepa | 
August 2nd: Naughty By Nature |
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July
12th
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28th Season Opener!
George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic
The Ohio Players |
July
19th
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Toni Braxton
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July
26th |
Musiq Soulchild
Chrisette Michele
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August
2nd |
Old-School Hip-Hop Night
Salt-N-Pepa
Naughty By Nature
Slick Rick
& a surprise guest: Busta Rhymes! |
Thursday
August
5th
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JOHN LEGEND
at CONEY ISLAND, NOT WINGATE
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August
9th
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Aretha Franklin
CANCELED
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August
16th
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Gospel Night
BeBe & CeCe Winans
Fred Hammond
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August
23rd
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Caribbean Night
Sean Paul
and
The King of Calypso
The Mighty Sparrow
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July 12: George Clinton, PFunk, & The Ohio Players
July 26: Musiq Soulchild |
Presented by Borough President Marty Markowitz, this Free Monday Night concert series
is in its 28th season!
7:30PM Monday evenings between July 12th and August 23th, FREE
Get There Early! Lines to get in can be very long and slow-moving.
Directions to Wingate Field are below.
Updates: Performers are subject to change, listen for announcements on WLIB 1190AM or WBLS 107.5 FM
If there's rain in the forecast, make sure you check to be sure the show's still on before you head out for Wingate!
PROHIBITED: NO cameras, audio and/or video recording, alcohol, pets, glass bottles (plastic is OK), or smoking.
You can bring folding chairs; seating is limited. All persons and packages are subject to search before entry (and yes, they do).
August 23: Sean Paul | | 
August 16th: BeBe & CeCe Winans
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July 19: Toni Braxton
| DIRECTIONS
The MLK Concert Series takes place at Wingate Field on Brooklyn Avenue between Rutland Road and Winthrop Street in the Crown Heights / Wingate neighborhood.
See the map and directions below. | 
August 16: BeBe & CeCe Winans |
Map of Martin Luther King Concert Series, Wingate Field| Directions to the Martin Luther King Jr Concert Series at Wingate Field |
First of all, the lines to get into these concerts are notoriously LONG and SLOW. So Get There Early!
  By Subway: 2 or 5 trains to Winthrop Street. Walk 2 blocks East. The train runs
rush hour only, service ends at 8:45pm. To return to an east-side line after the concert, take the
train to Franklin Avenue/Eastern Parkway (3 stops) and change there to the  train). You can also get the B48,
B49, or B71 bus at Franklin Avenue.
There is a major subway hub at Atlantic Avenue,
you can take the
train there after the concert (7 stops)
and change to the
trains,
or change to the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) for service to Far Rockaway, Babylon, Long Beach, West Hempstead, and the Montauk branch.
The Franklin Avenue Shuttle (3 stops away on the 2 train) will get you to the 
or  train.
Important tip for tourists: the Franklin Avenue Shuttle is NOT the same Shuttle you get at Times Square!
Travel Time: on the train it will take you 35 to 40 minutes to get to Winthrop Street from Times Square in Manhattan.
Your wait in line at the gate will usually be much longer... |
By Car:
From Manhattan: Manhattan bridge to Flatbush Avenue. Drive 3 miles down Flatbush Avenue, to Rutland Road. Turn left on Rutland Road, continue on Rutland to Brooklyn Avenue. The park and field are on the right.
From Long Island and South Brooklyn: Belt Parkway to Exit 6N. Flatbush Avenue North. Take Flatbush Avenue 5 miles to Rutland Road. Right turn on Rutland. Continue on Rutland to Brooklyn Avenue. The park and field are on your right.
Parking: It's awful. There is a privately operated parking lot available at Kings County Hospital on Winthrop Street between Albany and Brooklyn Avenues. On-street parking fills up fast. Mass transit is a better option.
For your GPS unit:
Use the address 600 Kingston Avenue Brooklyn NY 11203
Here is a full street map of Brooklyn.
By Bus: B12 to New York Avenue or B44 to Winthrop Street.
Closest Hotel:
Howard Johnson Hotel Brooklyn
599 Utica Ave
(Cross street is Winthrop Street -
about a half mile from the concert venue)
Telephone: (718) 774-0018
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JOHN LEGEND is at CONEY ISLAND on August 5th, NOT WINGATE!
| 2007-2009 Season Appearances:
The following artists
appeared at Wingate Park
in 2007, 2008, & 2009:
Patti LaBelle
Erykah Badu
John Legend
MC Hammer
Lauryn Hill
Boyz II Men
Doug E. Fresh
Jill Scott
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Keyshia Cole
Anita Baker
Lyfe Jennings
Machel Montano
Jazmine Sullivan
Robin Thicke
Ruben Studdard
The Mighty Sparrow |
Left: John Legend will play a free concert August 5th, 2010 at
Asser Levy / Seaside Park in Coney Island. He appeared at Wingate Field in 2008.
| Did You Know... Wingate is named after George Wood Wingate (1840-1928), a Union general in the Civil War who
is best known as co-founder of the National Rifle Association.
Before George Wingate High School was built in 1954,
this part of Brooklyn was known as Pig Town, because of all the small-animal farms in the area. The park was
previously known as Hawthorne Field and George Wingate High School Park.
Wingate is in the Flatbush area of
Brooklyn, to the north of East Flatbush, east of Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, and just south of Crown Heights.
And it's "Wingate" not "Windgate" or "Wyngate". |
Other Free Brooklyn Concerts in Summer 2010:
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Creative-Commons licensed photo credits: George Clinton photos by
neil365 on Flickr
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