Grinding Gears PROFILE: Wheelchair Sports Camp

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But of all the towering acts, the primary attraction for many Church-goers will be the three-foot, six-inch Denver rapper Kalyn Heffernan and her trio Wheelchair Sports Camp. Dolan rocked a show with Heffernan last year in Albuquerque, where he was impressed enough to invite her whole band along for his trip to South by Southwest. He even bailed people out when Wheelchair’s singer/sax player Abi McGaha Miller and her drummer brother Isaac were jailed in northern Texas for weed and graffiti.

It’s surprising that Heffernan avoided the arrest. Though weighing in at just 50 pounds — she has the fragile bone condition osteogenesis imperfecta — her public enemy status is heavyweight, right down to the CRIP LIFE tattoo on her stomach. Besides hip-hop extracurriculars like burning spliffs and swilling beer, Heffernan is a bandana-clad activist who rolls with hard progressive forces like Occupy Denver. On record, her incisive rhymes rail on everything from Wall Street to pollution; off the mic she pays it forward through a number of community causes.