Artists To Watch In 2026: Wheelchair Sports Camp

WHEELCHAIR SPORTS CAMP is certainly not your average hip-hop act. Fronted by KALYN ROSE HEFFERNAN, a wheelchair using, profanely queer, and tiny rapper, with a very distinct high-pitched sense of humor, the band is a combination of live and electronic instruments provided by JOSHUA TRINIDAD on trumpet and GREGG ZIEMBA on drums that creates a more jazzy, noisey, funky sound than the traditional hip-hop group. Their unconventional setup of live instruments and Kalyn’s produced beats presents a polished sound with old-school lyrics that maintain a sarcastic yet independent and heavy consciousness.

The band unknowingly started in the summer of 1997 when Kalyn moved back from California to her hometown and was invited to attend and corrupt the 14th annual week-long Colorado Jr. Wheelchair Sports Camp. This noisy experiment was birthed by the DIY, combining beats with shredding face live. Playing shows in every place they could, the band has since stretched into theatre, performance art, public television, politics, prison tours, permanent installations, and who knows what’s next…. but alreadyWHEELCHAIR SPORTS CAMP has been featured on the cover of the Village Voice as well as in SPIN Magazine, Huffington Post, High Times Magazine and more.

With two epic songs on their very successful ALTERNATIVE TENTACLES RECORDS debut 7-inch record, Yess I'm A Mess WHEELCHAIR SPORTS CAMP has positioned themselves perfectly to drop a brand new album this next year! All we know is that they keep saying that "We are Punk now" over and over, but we kinda think they were always punk... they just didn't know it. 

Pick up their incredible two song 7" available now everywhere!


...also check out their latest track "Denim"