The Roots Celebrate Women Roots Junkanoo Group using this year’s first parade of the season to celebrate the strength and beauty of women. | Our News Bahamas

2024 NEW YEAR’S JUNKANOO PARADE: The Roots Junkanoo group bringing all the moves to the 2024 New Year’s Day Junkanoo Parade while presenting the theme “Let’s Dance.” | Eyewitness News Bahamas

Experience the vibrant rhythm and energy of a Junkanoo rush out in The Bahamas! 🥁 This historical music celebration fills your ears and eyes with beautiful sights and sounds! Junkanoo music incorporates drums, cowbells, brass horns, and whistles while the colourful costumes are made out of cardboard, crepe paper, feathers, beads, and more. Don't miss the Junkanoo rush outs on Boxing Day and New Year's Day from 2am onwards—it's a must for your bucket list! Can’t make it during that time of year?

Now that's a statement piece. A celebration of liberation and freedom, the Bahamian Junkanoo has roots in West African cultures. Junkanoo time means music, dance, vivid costume, and theater in the days leading up to the new year. Our Junkanoo headdress was worn in 1994 when this celebration was brought to our Smithsonian Folklife Festival and you can now see its full splendor thanks to Smithsonian 3D Digitization. It is made of carboard and crepe paper and decorated with paint, tinsel, and shini