- My name is Allegra DuChaine, and I'm gonna play some music for you.

The beginning of Allegra as a musician was probably when I was little with my two older sisters.

- I had a reason, I have a purpose - Singing with the family, like the Partridge Family.

I have a habit of being impulsive.

My parents were musicians.

My parents loved to sing.

My dad would come into our rooms in the morning to wake us up for school with his guitar.

Music was always a part of my life.

Harmony has always been this kind of just intrinsic thing for me, especially singing with my sisters.

Our voices do blend, really, really familially together.

You know, I always liked songs that started somewhere and ended up somewhere else, and it took you on a journey.

Simon Garfunkel, Ella Fitzgerald, John Denver, James Taylor.

I like storytelling, and that's definitely how I write and that's how I love to write.

I had just moved to Norfolk.

We were in the military.

My husband was in the military for 20 years, and life was changing and uncertain.

That was kind of my transition into creating this new existence, this new way of living and loving and you know, learning about what I need and what I want, and how to live in a way that is not just what we've been told is the right way.

Me time is finding my new normal, finding the new me.

Figure out how to love myself and how to take care of me and not put that on anybody else.

- So don't - Call me baby.

Being a musician and being a female.

A lot of men use the terminology, baby, go ahead and you don't need to put me in a box.

I'm good.

When I wrote it, I wanted it to be kind of upbeat and fun, little bit funny.

I'm a little bit funny.

I'm a little bit kind, and I'm unpredictable.

And you know, you don't have to call me baby to make yourself feel bigger.

I don't need you to name your label.

Me.

I'm too big in my own skin to be called baby from a person that I don't even know.

So you can keep it.

- Also, you guys, - Sorry, one more thing.

We do have our little libation table over here.

Please do help yourselves.

We got wine and beer, champagne.

Yeah, please.

It's our gift to you for coming out.

We got little chocolates there.

Don't be shy.

Of course, you know, if you're of age, don't be a 16-year-old trying to come up here and score some booze.

All right.

You don't need that.

All right.

I really do love it here.

I love the diversity of Norfolk.

I love my friend group.

Having my friends there to support.

You know, anytime I play anywhere around here, it's great to get them out.

It's a strangely funny feeling, sometimes feels just overwhelming.

Being to get up on stage with people who you can communicate with and listen to.

That is just, that's it.

That is it.

Any musician you ever talk to will say the same thing is being on stage with people that are listening.

They're listening and communicating.

It's just, it makes it a dream.

Paige Miller, she is a phenomenal drummer and percussionist.

She and I lived in San Diego at the same time and found each other within the music community and started playing gigs together.

Then she moved back to her hometown, Ashland.

And when I moved to Virginia, she immediately got in touch with me and said, Hey girl, you know, we're like an hour and a half from each other.

It's been years, but let's make music.

We met up, had some wine in Williamsburg, and the rest is history.

So Paige is just spectacular.

She listens and communicates, and it makes playing with her a dream.

I want so badly right now.

I want to write about things that are important.

I wanna write about people using their minds and using their humanity and banding together as compassionate, intelligent, creative beings.

We have to do that.

We have to.

It's essential.

- Thank you.

But once again, my tender heart has stolen the keys, and they can be out for a joy ride, and I don't have a seatbelt, so I'm holding on and letting it drive, ignoring the side.