The original lineup of the Grammy-winning group: Duckie Simpson, Don Carlos and Garth Dennis, reunited in the late '80's and are interviewed while touring the U.S. with their band in 1990. Original concert clips shot at Bay Street, Sag Harbor, NY. include: "Take Heed, "Heathen", "Peace & Love", "Botha", and "Hey Joe". Night Nurse reports the Reggae News and Reviews from Step Lively.

Bob Marley, the "king of reggae", is saluted in this 1990 birthday tribute.The program features interviews with many who knew this internationally revered musical icon, including Bunny Wailer, Marley's Artistic Director, Neville Garrick, biographers, Timothy White and Roger Steffens, singers Marcia Griffiths, Judy Mowatt, Alpha Blondy, Thomas Mapfumo, and son, Ziggy Marley.

Faybiene Miranda is a singular artist who combines, poetry, singing and activism to produce her own powerful formula for positive expression. A gifted, articulate, writer and thinker, Miranda is captured here on a brisk autumn afternoon and evening in Brooklyn's Prospect Park, performing, "I am That I Am", "Drums", and "Black Tracks" (accompanied by Prospect Park's drummers), and sings, "Prophecy" as the sun sets.

Jamaican piano prodigy, Jackie Mittoo, was a groundbreaking figure at Coxsone Dodd's Studio One and remains an integral component of reggae history. This pioneering composer/ keyboardist/arranger/producer, is remembered in this program, taped three days after his passing on December 16, 1990. Mittoo is interviewed and videotaped in rehearsal & performance at The Latin Quarter in 1987, with Roland Alphonso, Tommy McCook, Lloyd Brevett and Lloyd Knibb, aka the legendary Skatalites.

Majek Fashek of Nigeria, took up Fela's revolutionary mantle in the 1980s and fashioned it to a reggae beat. One of Africa's outstanding songwriters and performers, his single, "Send Down the Rain" ended a drought in Nigeria and bestowed an almost mystical status on this conscious singer/guitarist. Majek is interviewed at the 79th Street Boat Basin on the Hudson River at the start of his first US tour in 1990.

The "king of lovers rock", bonafide hitmaker, Maxi Priest is blessed with a one in a million voice and a surplus of charisma. Born in Jamaica, but raised in SW London, he has achieved international popularity without sacrificing his reggae roots and holds the distinction of being the only UK based reggae singer to score a number one Billboard hit with his now classic single, "Close To You."

Moja Nya, one of New York's favorite US based reggae bands, has its roots in Dominica, the lush gem of the Caribbean. An explosive, 4-piece, cultural, roots band, Moja Nya tore down the house at Bay Street in Sag Harbor in the summer of 1985. This early program features interviews at Rocket Rehearsal Studio, reggae's veteran NYC equipment house, and original concert footage of "Crackerjack", "Let the Sunshine In", and "Rise-Up".

Reggae's Ambassadors are documented while recording their album, "Serious Business" at Sound Trax Studio, NYC in 1989. This program includes an interview with keyboardist, Michael "Ibo" Cooper and an in-studio duet between Bunny Rugs and Polygram recording artist, Marva Hicks, recording "Head to the Sky", with Geoffrey Chung mixing.