1970

• NC Symphony
• John Kolisch, hypnotist
• Charlie Byrd
• Voices, INC.
• Lado, Yugoslav National Dance and Folk Ensemble
• Youre a Good Man Charlie Brown, the Peanuts musical
• James Reston
• Jane Howard, author of Please Touch: A Guided Tour of the Human Potential Movement
• Preservation Hall Jazz Band with Billie and Dede Pierce
• Angie Brooks, diplomat and political leader of Liberia
• Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
• James Weldon Johnson's Trumpet of the Lord

1971

• NC Symphony
• Livingston Taylor
• Ballad of Baby Doe
• Gold and Fitzdale
• National Ballet
• W.H. Auden
• National Theatre of the Deaf
• Max Morath: At The Turn of The Century
• Pat Paulsen, comedian
• Carlos Montoya
• Preservation Hall Jazz Band
• John Chappell: Mark Twain Tonight
• EDO: Japanese Music and Pantomime
• Philippe Entremont, piano
• Mike Mansfield, Senate Majority Leader
• Kafka Der Prozes
• Josh White Jr.
• Houston Ballet
• Bella Abzug, Congresswomen
• Seals and Crofts
• New York Pro Musica
• National Symphony Orchestra

1972

• Nikki Giovanni, Princess of Black Poetry
• Harkness Ballet of New York
• Canadian Opera Company, Orpheus in the Underworld
• San Fransisco Mime Troupe
• Fat City, Bill Danoff and Taff Nivert
• Marionette Show
• Carlos Montoya
• Doc and Merle Watson
• Jack Anderson, columnist and muckraker
• Don Shirley
• Thorton Wilders The Skin of our Teeth and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
• Norman Mailer
• Andre Kole
• Charlie Byrd
• Olympia Brass Band
• North Carolina Dance Theatre
• Charles Kuralt
• William Styron, journalist
• Eugene Patterson, journalist
• Harry Ashmore, journalist
• Bill Emerson, journalist
• Claude Sitton, journalist
• Harold Martin, journalist
• John Popham, journalist
• Jesse Jackson
• Ray Marshall
• Julian Bond, politician
• Linwood Holton, politician
• Terry Sanford, politician
• Ernest Hollings, politician
• Senator William Proxmine
• Michael Harrington
• Carolina Repertory Company
• Deller Consort
• University of Ackland Choir
• Promises, Promises
• New York Pro Musicas An Entertainment for Elizabeth
• John Kolisch
• Robert Wagner Chorale
• NC Symphony
• Dick Gregory
• Verdis Rigoletto, Goldovsky Grand Opera Theater

1973

• Leo Kottke
• Imamu Amiri Baraka (AKA Le Roi Jones), poet and playwright
• Mission Mountain Wood Band
• Gore Vidal
• Herbie Mann
• Margaret Mead
• David Brinkley
• Polish Mime Theatre
• NC Symphony
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and UNC alumnus
• The Cage
• Angelican Orchestra of Miln
• Henry Scoop Jackson, US Senator
• St Louis Jazz Quartet with Jeanne Trevon
• NC Dance Theatre
• Prison Reform Forum with Tom McUrton
• Lee Bainds
• Trish Hunt and Don Pollitt
• Lorin Hollander, pianist
• Les Ballets Africians
• Israeli Mime Zwikarar
• Octopus Dance Collective
• Dizzy Gillespie
• Don Lee, poet, editor, spiritual leader
• The Bar-Kays, part of the Black Arts Festival Consortium
• First Moog Quartet
• Leonard Rose, cello and Gary Graffman, piano
• The Joffrey II Ballet
• Harry Chapin
• Buddy Rich and his Orchestra
• Baroque Ensemble, USSR
• George Shirley
• Gwendolyn Brooks
• Ramona Austin, poet, actress and performer
• National Lampoon's Lemmings

1974

• Marcel Marceau
• Luis Rivera Spanish Dance Company
• Mac Frampton and Ensemble
• Howards Roberts Chorale with Ella Mitchell
• Russ Kirkpatrick
• Bobby Seale of the Black Panthers
• Woody Herman and his Big Band
• Claude Kipnic Mime Theatre
• Chick Corea and Return to Forever
• Black Heat
• Cicely Tyson
• Arrogance
• Leo Kottke
• NC Symphony
• Shinichi Suzuki
• Bernadette Devlin
• William Kunstler
• Dr. Ralph Abernathy
• Julian Bond
• Angela Davis
• Charles Treger
• Martha W. Griffiths, Congresswoman
• Edward Villella Dance Company
• Mission Mountain Wood Band
• Gloria Steinem
• Viveca Lindfors, I am a Women
• Carolina Symposium: East Asia: Perspectives and Projections
• Samy Terry and Brounie McGhee
• Congressman Ronald Dellums

1975

• Elmo Zumwalt
• Maynard Ferguson and his Orchestra
• The Merchant of Venice
• The Louis Falco Dance Company
• Two Generations of Brubeck
• Phoebe Snow
• Lily Tomlin
• Carlos Montoya
• Preservation Hall Jazz Band
• Herbie Hancock and The Headhunters
• Mission Mountain Wood Band
• The Memphis Blues Caravan
• Tom Wolfe, author of, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Pumphouse Gang
• Olivia de Havilland, Gone with the Wind Experience
• Paul Winter Consort
• Bill Russell, coach of the Seattle Supersonics
• Janis Ian
• Chick Corea and Return to Forever, Stanley Clark, Lenny White, Al Dineola
• Captain and Tennille
• NC Dance Theatre
• The Duke Ellington Orchestra (pictured)
• Ellen Burstyn
• James Carson and Rufus Edmister
• NC Symphony
• National Shakespeare Company Much Ado about Nothing
• David Duke
• George Shearing Quintet
• Pittsburgh Symphony Chamber Orchestra with guitarist Christopher Parkening
• Noel Neil ,The original Lois Lane
• Billy Cobham
• Who killed JFK?
• Luis Rivera Spanish Dance Company
• Ishmael Reed
• Jeff Vaughn and John Schott
• Ghosts
• Camill Yarbrough
• Dr. Garrett Hardin, biologist
• Cleveland Amory, wildlife protection advocate
• George Plimpton
• The Paul Winter Consort
• Chuck Davis Dance Company
• Harrison Wellford
• Jeff MacNelly
• Six International Stars of Ballet

1976

• 1776
• Lotte Goslars Panntomine Circus
• Much Ado About Nothing, National Shakespeare Company
• Freddie Hubbard
• Leo Kottke
• Triangle Dance Guild
• NC Opera, Barber of Seville
• Same Time, Next Year
• NC Symphony
• Dave Brubeck Quartet
• The Hartford Ballet
• Truman Capote
• Ken Feit, mime, clown
• Hal Holbrook is Mark Twain Tonight
• NY Chamber Soloists
• The Chuck Davis Dance Company
• The Art of Massaging with Gordon Inkeles
• Tim Weisberg
• Modern Jazz Quartet
• Billy Cobham with the George Duke Band
• Jimmy Buffett
• Bette Jones Dances We Dance
• NC Dance Theater
• US Army Studio Band
• Mike Cross and the Hard Times Jazz Band
• Bob Evans
• Gravy Boat and the Red Clay Ramblers
• Dean Smith
• William Shatner
• Eugene Fodor, violinist
• The Intermediate P.D.Q. Bach
• Pilobolus
• Garrick Ohlsson, pianist
• The Hartford Ballet
• Lindsay Anderson, film director
• Malcolm Miller
• Joseph Biden
• Ralph Bakshi

1977

• New York City Ballet A Midsummers Night Dream
• Nikki Giovanni
• William Colby, Former Director of the CIA
• Julie Harris in The Belle of Amherst
• Milwaukee Ballet
• The Kathryn Posin Dance Company
• Ron Nessen
• Mark Almond Band
• National Folk Ballet of Yugoslavia
• New Performing Group
• Carolinas Regional Theatre Appalachia Sounding
• Ruth Laredo
• Bubbling Brown Sugar
• Herbie Mann Orchestra
• National Lampoon Show, Thats not funny, thats sick
• Cabaret
• Piedmont Chamber Orchestra with Nocholas Housanyi
• Arlo Guthrie with Shenandoah
• The Okinawan Dancers
• Tashi, Peter Serkin, Ida Kavafian, Fred Sherry and Richard Stoltzman
• Karl Hess
• Chuck Mangione
• Jean Michel Cousteau
• The David Bromberg Band
• Bob Hope Talent Search
• NC Symphony
• Timothy Leary
• Las Cantigas de Santa Maria presented by The Waverly Consort
• Patti Smith Group
• Herbie Mann and the Family of Mann
• Jonathan Kozel
• North Carolina Opera The Barber of Seville
• Carlos Montoya
• Waverly Consort

1978

• Paul Winter Consort with Keith Berger, mime
• Leon Redbone
• Edward Albee
• Fred Harris
• James Donlon, Mime
• Rod Abernathy
• Jerry Jeff Walker
• Mary Lou Williams
• Fred Harris, former Senator
• James Talley
• Footpath Dance Company
• Kool and the Gang
• The Modulations
• Andrei Voznesensky
• Frederic Slonaska
• Black Elk Speaks
• Your Arms Are Too Short To Box With God
• NC Symphony
• Atlanta Ballet Touring Ensemble
• Bill Evans Dance Company
• Alger Hess
• Same Time, Next Year
• The Sound of Music
• Neil Simons California Suite
• Chick Corea and Gary Burton
• Blackstone Magic Show
• Paul Taylor Dance Company
• Jorge Morel
• Music for Marlboro
• North Carolina Dance Theater
• Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

1979

• David Bromberg Band
• NY community Choir
• Dixie Dregs
• The Wiz
• NC Symphony and the Dizzy Gillespie Quartet
• The Beaux Arts Trio
• Bulgarian National Folk Ensemble
• Eubie!
• Dan Wagoner and Dancers
• Minnesota Dance Theater
• Alvin Ailey Rep Ensemble
• Gil Eagles, hypnotist
• The Acting Company in Romeo and Juliet
• Martin Luther King, Sr.
• Michele Wallace
• Cicely Tyson
• NY Community Choir
• Touch, mime troupe
• Minnesota Dance theater
• Sir Harold Wilson
• Estelle Parsons in Miss Margaridas Way
• Antoinettte Attell as Toad the Mime
• NY City Ballet, Edward Villella
• Tom Key is C.S. Lewis
• Arlo Guthrie
• George Plimpton
• Betty Williams
• Charles Rosen
• Junko Ohtsu
• Madalyn Murray OHaire