Sweetwater Saloon

Sweetwater Saloon was a bar and music venue located at 153 Throckmorton Avenue[1][2] Mill Valley, California, with a 30-year history of live musical performances by the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Elvis Costello,[3] Jerry Garcia, The String Cheese Incident, John Lee Hooker and Carlos Santana.

“For years, Sweetwater was the place many of us local and visiting musicians headed to when we were looking to play for fun, Well, our clubhouse is back — and it belongs to all of us.

BBC Television shot a documentary at the club on January 7, 1992[17] featuring John Lee Hooker, Bonnie Raitt and Ry Cooder.

[23] Becky and Thom Steere, the owners of Sweetwater in Mill Valley began operating the 100-seat cabaret-dinner theater Larkspur Cafe Theatre on July 1, 2007.

[25] [26][27] On Saturday, January 21, 2012, four years and four months after the original Sweetwater ceased operations, it reopened as Sweetwater Music Hall, owned and operated by a new management and investor group and located in the recently renovated lower floor of Mill Valley's Masonic Temple (opposite Mill Valley's City Hall), held its inaugural music event, a "trade only" party featuring local musician Austin De Lone's band with guest performers including Jerry Harrison (local resident and former lead guitarist for Talking Heads).