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 Snake on the Lake Festival
Cost: free
Last year, the University of Wisconsin’s student radio station premiered the Snake on the Lake festival out of the ashes of the defunct Party in the Park.
After years of hosting major national acts, the Party’s major sponsor Pepsi Cola pulled funding, forcing the popular festival to end. Re-incarnated for the first time last year as the Snake on the Lake festival, local and regional acts rocked the Wisconsin Union terrace to an estimated 2500 to 5000 people. WSUM will be holding the all-ages event on the lake again this year free of charge, although the acts have yet to be confirmed. -- Emma Condon
 Site of Otis Redding’s plane crash
Monona Terrace: One John Nolan Dr.
Lake Monona isn't the biggest of Madison's four lakes, but it is the most fraught with tragic music history. On Dec. 10, 1967, soul legend Otis Redding went to a watery grave here, along with his manager, four members of his band the Bar-Kays and the pilot of the plane. The Monona Terrace, a lakeside community center, features a memorial to the singer who recorded "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" only three days before meeting his untimely end. The world lost a transformative music figure, the missing link between gospel and R&B, to Monona's icy depths, and fans continue to pay their respects here every year. -- Dan Wohl
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This town profile was produced entirely by student journalists from The Daily Cardinal and The Badger Herald, the leading news sources for the University of Wisconsin community. You can learn more about the individual student contributors by visiting their profiles on UWIRE.com:
Text: Eric Anderson, Francesca Brumm, Caissa Casare, Emma Condon, Matt Hunziker, Sara Lieburn, Ben Peterson, Mario Puig, Oren Rosenberg, Kyle Sparks, Dan Wohl
Photo: Kyle Burnsaw, Jacob Ela, Christopher Guess, Amanda Salm, Ellen Siebers
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