Photo via ANC Nolan Treadway.

A new concept for the park. Photo via ANC Nolan Treadway.

A park dedicated to Chuck Brown, the late Godfather of Go-Go, will no longer have a space for live music performances.

As Washington City Paper reports, the latest plans for the future Langdon neighborhood park do not include a scaled-back 200-seat amphitheater. Residents of the neighborhood previously expressed concerns that a music space would lead to noise and disturbances. The existing park already has a small amphitheater, which will be removed, Department of General Services spokesman Kenneth Diggs told Housing Complex.

Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Nolan Treadway wrote about the amphitheater-less park after a Single Member District meeting in late June:

The big news from the meeting came from the [Department of General Services] and [Department of Parks and Recreation] presenters who said the concept of the Chuck Brown memorial as an amphitheater has been scraped and the memorial will now be a plaza. When this was announced, the meeting broke out in applause! The current designs include a statue and information about Chuck Brown’s life and legacy. They call for a human-scale wall that will include his discography and images. Both designs also included a statue of Chuck Brown, which would require a different process, but one they expect to include.

Treadway also reported that the “response at the meeting was overwhelmingly positive to the new direction.”

The response on Twitter today, however, has been mixed.

The city will now choose between two concepts for the park. Both concepts feature a memorial wall and an outdoor instrument space, where there will be drums, xylophones and other instruments for the community to play.

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