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Fancy Dancers Secure First Boxing Day Win After 23 Years

NASSAU, BAHAMAS- After 23 three years the Fancy Dancers have secured a Boxing Day Junkanoo win and group members are feeling energized by it.

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12 months ago

December 27, 2024

Berthony McDermott

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – After 23 three years the Fancy Dancers have secured a Boxing Day Junkanoo win and group members are feeling energized by it.

The group thought it important to highlight social ills facing the country this Boxing Day, but this new year’s day, the group is taking spectators to Egypt.

The Fancy Dancers taking home the B category win this Boxing Day and are feeling up to the challenge to secure another win this New Year’s Day.

The win is special for them as it’s the first time they’ve been able to lock down a Boxing Day win in over two decades.

Rivers telling they saw it important to highlight some of the social ills facing the country. It comes as the group brought this piece paying respect to Adriel Moxey.

The 12-year-old girl found dead on a track road a few weeks ago.

“With a costume like this that shows something that is ripe in our hearts right now,” Dr. Rivers said.”

“We really wanted to bring this to light so that people can feel what we feel, what her parents feel, what her family feels. These are issues that we have to address in the Bahamas, and this is how the Fancy Dancers wanted to memorialize her.”