Musicians from the California Bluegrass Association perform at their monthly jam session at the Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley. (Photo by Maria Hoppe)

Mill Valley’s Sweetwater Music Hall became a nonprofit arts organization in 2021. (Sherry LaVars/Marin Independent Journal)

An ensemble from Enriching Lives Through Music performs at the Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley. (Photo by Maria Hoppe)

Grateful Dead icon Bob Weir does not own Sweetwater Music Hall.

Maria Hoppe, executive director of the venerable Mill Valley venue, can’t even count how many times she’s had to tell people that. While Weir is one of Sweetwater’s founding investors and is considered its honorary godfather, he’s not Daddy Warbucks.

“The thing we are struggling to overcome and correct is that we are owned b

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