Spencer Townshend Hughes

Co-founder, Music Minds Matter

Denver

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Spencer is co-founder of Music Minds Matter, an organization focused on providing mental wellness resources to members of the music community. Spencer also facilitates the Mental Wellness Meetup for musicians in the community who are struggling with their mental wellness as it pertains to being involved in the music scene and beyond. Before starting Music Minds Matter with co-founder Angela Whaley, Spencer worked as an Employment Specialist at the Aurora Mental Health Center, where he was assisting clients of AUMHC with finding and maintaining employment. Spencer also fronts the Denver alternative rock quartet The Hollow, which has been nominated as Denver’s Best Rock Band over the past two years by 303 Magazine and Denver’s Westword and has opened for national acts such as Trapt, Badflower, The Verve Pipe, and more. When Spencer isn’t participating in the Colorado music scene however he can, he’s performing as a suit puppeteer in the international touring production of Walking With Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular. If you’re interested in learning more (especially about the dinosaur thing), you can contact him at spencer@musicmindsmatter.org.