1980

• Hal Holbrook is Mark Twain Tonight
• NC Symphony
• Chapter Two
• Aint Misbehavin'
• Death Trap
• A Chorus Line
• Da
• The Elephant Man
• Pauline Koner Dance Consort
• Coretta Scott King
• Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians
• Billy Taylor Trio Jazz Ensemble
• Andrew Young
• Doc Watson
• Chuck Mangione
• Washington Ballet
• George Thorogood
• Ranson Wilson and Nancy Allen
• Yo-Yo Ma
• Arrogance
• Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes
• G. Gordon Liddy
• Edward Villela
• John B. Anderson, Independent Presidential Candidate
• Al Jarreau
• The Murray Louis Dance Company
• Jean Kennedy and Mothers Finest with Eaze
• Minister Louis Farrakhan
• Noel Coward's Private Lives
• Molly Hatchett with Nantucket
• The Greg Smith Singers
• Lenox Quartet
• The Glinka Chorus of Leningrad
• The Washington Ballet
• Rita Mae Brown

1981

• NC Symphony
• Dancin
• The Eastern Brass Quintet
• Ballet Forclorica Nacional de Mexico
• Janacek Chamber Orchestra
• Arthur Hall Afro-American Dance Ensemble
• Phyllis Lamhut Dance Company
• Ohio Ballet
• The Naked Truth: Advertisings Image of Women, Jean Killbourne
• Betty Friedan Vs. Phyllis Schlofly
• Whats Up Doc? An Evening with Mel Blanc
• Home by Samm-Art Williams
• George McGovern
• The David Grisman Quartet and Ricky Skaggs and Band
• Franz Lenars Merry Widow
• Spyro Gyra
• Maya Angelou
• Kate Mollett
• The Little Match Girl: A Jubilee of Dance, Chapel Hill Ballet Company
• Michael Manley
• Children of a Lesser God

1982

• Annie
• NC Symphony
• Hal Holbrook is Mark Twain Tonight
• The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
• Theyre Playing our Song
• Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago
• American Ballet Theater II
• Jose Limon Dance Company
• Tom Wolfe
• Sarah Evans
• Maynard Jackson
• David Halberstam
• Treger/Watts Duo
• Music from Marlboro
• The Prague Symphony Orchestra
• Tintypes
• The Jazz Ambassadors
• Aspen Soloists
• Noel Paul Stookey, (Paul of Peter, Paul and Mary)and the Bodyworks Band
• Preservation Hall Jazz Band
• Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
• Diane Lynn
• Alex Haley
• Gerald ONeil
• Orchestra of Bulgaria
• Frances Fitzgerald
• Pat Robertson
• Frank Church, former US Senator
• John Conyers, Congressman
• Thomas Larango
• Dr. Charles H. King Jr.
• Hargrove Skipper Bowles, Jr.
• Jim Fixx The Complete Book of Running
• Bobbi Humphrey and Sunfire
• Clive Barnes, Drama and Dance Critic for the NY Post
• George Grizzard
• David Stick
• DEVO, Satellite Presentation - Live in 3-D (pictured)
• Duke Ellingtons Sophisticated Ladies (Satellite Presentation)

1983

• NC Symphony
• Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble
• Frank Holder Dance Company
• Ohio Ballet
• Amadeus
• Barnum
• Master Harold and the Boys, Starring James Earl Jones
• The Eastern Brass Company
• The Chieftains
• Negro Ensemble Company, Colored Peoples Time
• Max Robinson
• NC Dance Theatre
• Bow Wow Wow
• Saturday Night Lives Garrett Morris, Hold the Taxi, Im Packing my Bags
• Leon Bates, pianist
• The Kozlov Ballet, Leonid and Valentina
• Mike Cross, St. Patricks Day Show
• Earl Klugh
• Hothouse
• The English Beat with R.E.M (pictured)
• Pump Boys and Dinettes
• The Deller Consort
• Carlos Montoya
• Marshall Crewshaw
• Nikki Giovanni
• Irving R Levine
• Shirley Chisholm, First Black Woman elected to Congress
• Nelson Padgett, pianist
• William D. Ruckelshaus, EPA
• Dr. Donald C. Johanson, Anthropologist
• Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie

1984

• The John McNeil Quartet
• NC Symphony
• Crimes of the Heart
• Agnes of God
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
• Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
• The Black Light Theatre of Prague
• Pilobolus Dance Theatre
• Hubbard Street Dance Company
• Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig
• New Orleans Philharmonic Orchestra with Philippe Entremont
• National Theatre of the Deaf, The Hero with a Thousand Faces
• Ms. Yolanda King, Martin Luther King Jr.s daughter
• MIME, Keith Berger
• Dr. Ruth Westheimer
• Earthwalk
• An Evening with Chuck Mangione and The Chuck Mangione Quartet
• Hubbard Street Dance Company
• Mike Cross
• Missing Persons, band
• Andrew Young, Mayor of Atlanta
• Joseph Holmes Dance Company of Chicago
• Night Mother
• Joe Henderson
• C.P. Ellis, Why I quit the Klan
• Lou Reed with the Swimming Pool Qs (pictured)
• Bonnie Raitt
• James Baldwin, author of Go Tell it on the Mountain
• Jimmy Carter
• Christine Craft, former anchor of KMBC News
• Feld Ballet

1985

• John Irving, the author of The World According to Garp
• Ambassador Ralph Earle II
• NC Symphony
• Tom Wicker
• George McGovern
• The Forgotten Americans: American Indians and Human Rights, Susan Harjo
• The Louisville Ballet
• The Ballet Folcorico Nacional de Mexico
• Dean Smith
• Academy of Ancient Music Chamber Ensemble

1986

• Noises Off, Starring Noel Harrison
• Randall Robinson
• Earl Wild, Worlds Most Celebrate Interpreter of Franz List, piano
• An Evening with John Walters
• Adolfo Colaro: Leader of the Contras in Nicaragua
• NC Symphony
• Lar Lubovitch Dance Company
• Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble
• The Prague Chamber Orchestra
• Mike Cross
• David Barber, cello
• Nick Brignola, saxaphone
• Sweet Honey in the Rock
• Kavafian and Kavafian
• Bangles and Hoodoo Gurus
• Arlo Guthrie and John Prine
• Miles Davis (pictured)
• Balletap U.S.A.
• Louie Bellson, drums
• Jeff MacNelly, Pulitzer Prize winner
• A Little Night Music,NC Opera Company
• Evita
• General Public
• Bonnie Raitt
• Tears and Fury: Apartheid, Maki Mandela
• Dr. Benjamin Spock
• Pinchas Zukerman and The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
• The Royal Ballet of Flanders
• Joseph Holmes Dance Theatre
• Brighton Beach Memoirs
• Torch Song Trilogy
• Sophisticated Ladies
• Jean-Pierre Rampul, flute
• Edward Villela and Dancers
• Arkady Schevchenko, The highest ranking Soviet official to ever defect
• Bill Douglas and Richard Stolzman
• Nancy Landon Kassebaum, US Senator from Kansas
• Lone Justice and the DBs
• Steven Wright

1987

• Ladysmith Black Mambazo
• NC Symphony
• Bruce Hornsby and the Range
• Charlie Byrd Trio and the Annapolis Brass Quintet
• The Heart of the Blues, Kuumba Theatre
• George Winston
• The Chieftains with Michael Flatley
• Charles Kuralt and Loonie McGlohan
• NC Dance Theatre
• Timothy Leary
• Peter Bensinger, DEA
• Husker Du
• Michael W. Smith with Billy Spague
• The Tempest
• Salzburg Musici
• Dean Smith
• Rufus Reid Quartet
• Al Di Meola
• John Scofield Band
• Eve Cornelius and the Chip Crawford Band
• Gary Burton Quintet
• Kevin Eubanks Trio with the Scott Sawyer Band
• Bent, Martin Sherman
• Al Green
• Randall Robinson
• Al Grey and the Buddy Tate Quintet
• and then there was Ecstasy!,Lester Grinspoon
• Leon Bates
• Terry Sanford
• National Dance Company of Senegal
• Dr. Ruth Westheimer
• Pilobolus Dance Theater
• Pat Metheny Group
• Cellar Door

1988

• The King and I
• "Man of La Mancha
• Camerata Musica of the DDR
• Eugene Istomin, pianist
• NC Symphony
• The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre
• Chicago City Ballet
• Brueggen, Leonhard and Bylsma, Baroque musicians
• Jim Snidero
• Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble (pictured)
• Dennis Miller
• Graham Chapman, founding member of Monty Python
• Abbie Hoffman
• Ohio Ballet
• Little Shop of Horrors
• The Church, Australian Band
• Donald Woods, South African Journalist
• Shadowfax, jazz band
• Andrew Young, former ambassador
• Arthur Schlesinger, author
• Bobby McFerrin
• Chuck Davis African American Dance
• Maya Angelou
• I Have a Dream, National Black Touring Circuit
• NC Dance Theatre

1989

• NC Symphony
• Lar Lubovitch Dance Company
• Billy Bragg and Hazel Dickens
• George Bensen
• Arun Gandhi
• British Music Hall
• Tokyo String Quartet
• Living Color
• Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr..
• The Hubbard Street Dance Company
• For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf
• Budapest Symphony Orchestra with Leonard Pennario
• My One and Only