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PRETTY MUCH PAYING ATTENTION When your audience is in diapers, what’s the formula for success? | BY JENN SALCIDO ’05
ODDS & ENDS Andrew Barkan ’02 and Polly Hall ’04 Palindrome Records
The married duo won a Parents’ Choice Award for their latest album’s “generous helping of sunny warmth, gentle humor and truly expert musicianship.”
MUSIC U The The first time Polly Hall ’04 and Andrew Barkan ’02 worked together, they were in a cramped studio space at Amherst, Barkan playing piano on a folk album that Hall was recording. Today, their workspace has expanded, as has the nature of their collaboration. From their home and 44 Amherst Winter 2016
studio in Santa Monica, Calif., the husband-andwife duo have composed catchy, quirky tunes for movies, advertising campaigns and children’s television, including Nickelodeon’s Wallykazam!. But they spend most of their time recording and performing as the children’s music duo Andrew Photograph by Josh Piha