The Grateful Heart Band is a musical philanthropic project dedicated to bringing people together, awakening hearts and inspiring a more loving and compassionate world through the gift of music. Accomplished through the presentation of highly crafted original songs and dynamic live performance the band's debut album, Heart Shaped World, is a powerful step forward in rock, jazz, soul and world beat curated by project visionary and principal songwriter Michael John Ahern and assisted by Joel Jaffe, SF producer and audio engineer. Michael is an Emmy nominated California songwriter, music producer, recording artist, and former NASA Mission Specialist with four decades of songwriting, studio and live performance experience. Each member of the Grateful Heart Band is a skilled music professional, each with a stellar reputation for on stage performance skill and studio session work.

GHB members include Christian Pepin, two-time Grammy Award winning singer and percussionist, former Gregg Allman bassist and Alameda All-Star Tommy Miller, veteran NYC/SF session drummer and touring musician Michael Israel, Bob McBain, keyboardist in Pete Floyd the Pink Floyd Experience and legendary Sonoma Valley guitarist Dennis “Dino” Cordellos.

Genre: Jazz Rock, Adult Contemporary, Yacht Rock, and Americana

Influences: Steely Dan, Ambrosia, Boz Skaggs, Sade, Michael Franks, Christopher Cross, Santana, Toto, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Genesis

The purpose of the body of work and the foundation for each performance is to inspire love on all human levels – love of place, love of community and greater love for humanity. A foundation of the Grateful Heart Project will be providing support for select nonprofits supporting biodiversity, animal rescue, and human services for the homeless.