Roots Junkanoo group is the realism of an ideal dreamt up by four young men who were stagnated within the old-time despotic machinations of one of the powerhouses in the Junkanoo World.
Leslie Johnson Les", Kevin Rahming "Dribbs, Anthony Smith Chinese" and Wendell Francis Guts" persuaded three other icons in the field, Paul Knowles Diamond", Peter Turn quest Gold" and Quentin Woodside Barabbas", to form a new democratically run organization.
At its inception meeting held in a backyard, Dribbs, a costume builder, gave the new entity its name and identity, ROOTS.
