page_title: Cachi Cachi music
section_title: Current status
hierarchical_section_title: Cachi Cachi music / Current status
caption_attribution_description: English: Puerto Rican Güiro on display in the Musical Instruments Museum of Phoenix
context_page_description: Cachi Cachi music, also spelled Kachi Kachi, Kachi-Kachi and Katchi-Katchi, is a term that was coined to refer to music played by Puerto Ricans in Hawaii, after they migrated to Hawaii in 1901.
  It is a "variation of dance music found in Hawaii" which is, at times, played very fast. The "influence on Hawai'i endures to this day in the musical form known as cachi cachi played on the quarto [sic] and derivative of the Puerto Rican jibaro style." Jibaro means farmer in Spanish. The Puerto Ricans in Hawaii "worked hard and played hard" and lightened the load for other plantation workers with their music.
  In Hawaii, the Puerto Ricans played their music with six-string guitar, güiro, and the Puerto Rican cuatro. Maracas and "palitos" sticks could be heard in the music around the 1930s.
  More modern versions of the music may include the accordion and electric and percussion instruments such as conga drums.
context_section_description: In 1989, the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, a nonprofit established for recording music by small communities from around the world, made available an album called Puerto Rican music in Hawai'i containing 16 tracks. The Library of Congress, included the recording in its 1990 list of "outstanding recordings" of US folk music for meeting specific criteria including that the music emphasizes "root traditions over popular adaptations of traditional materials."
  William Cumpiano, a master guitarmaker and his colleagues Wilfredo Echevarría and Juan Sotomayor researched, wrote, directed and produced a short documentary about the Hawaiian Puerto Ricans and their music which includes genres such as 
  slack-key, décima, seís and aguinaldos. It was titled Un Canto en Otra Montaña or A Song From Another Mountain.
  Sonny Morales, a resident of the Big Island of Hawaii, was "famous for making cuatros".
  The young Auli'i Cravalho, the voice of the Disney character, Moana, in the 2016 movie by the same name, talks about growing up with cachi cachi music. She was raised on the Big Island of Hawaii.
  Willie K., an award-winning, Hawaiian musician from the island of Maui, sings about it with lyrics "Cachi cachi music Makawao ...play the conga drum down in Lahaina".
caption: Phoenix-Musical Instrument Museum-Puerto Rican Güiro
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