Barbara, an all-woman music trio, is building buzz in Denver

Teal and orange lights flashed across a makeshift concert hall in a Glendale basement as nearly 100 people squeezed into the small space. Looking out on the crowd assembled in their home, one blooming Denver band knew they never wanted to let go of that feeling.

The basement’s concrete walls should’ve distorted the music, but the packed room — decorated with strings of lights, scrap metal concoctions and artwork — made it sound warm instead, said Bridget Hartman.

Hartman plays bass for Barbara , an all-woman music trio that refuses to be defined by a single genre.

“I can still see myself in the basement with the lights, and I remember us blowing ourselves away,” Hartman said. “That was the moment I knew.”

Barbara is marked by transformation — the merging of three musicians into one c