North Carolina A&T’s 100th homecoming celebration will close its main concert weekend with a Hip-Hop and R&B lineup led by Gunna. Ella Mai, Yung Miami, KWN and BabyChiefDoit are also scheduled to perform on Saturday, October 31, at First Horizon Coliseum in Greensboro.

The show is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are listed as on sale by the venue. The booking puts several artists with current releases or active album campaigns on the same homecoming-stage bill, while the following day shifts the musical focus to gospel.

A centennial homecoming concert with a current-music lineup

The Saturday concert arrives at the end of a homecoming week that began October 25. North Carolina A&T brands the occasion as the “Greatest Homecoming on Earth,” and the 100th edition gives this year’s events an added anniversary marker.

Gunna is the featured name for the Coliseum show. His appearance follows a particularly active October on the business side of his career: he launched SB THE LABEL with backing from Atlantic Music Group and assumed the CEO role. The initial artist roster includes Atlanta acts Casper Bluff, Nechie and Dracc.

That label launch was accompanied by promotion for “pop it” on Gunna’s official website. It also follows The Last Wun, his 25-track album released in August 2025. Offset, Wizkid and Burna Boy appear on that record. For concertgoers, the larger point is that Gunna’s homecoming set lands amid both an ongoing release cycle and a new executive venture, rather than as an isolated date between projects.

In music-industry terms, an artist-led label can serve more than one role. It can give an established performer a formal platform to develop and release music by other acts, while extending that performer’s influence beyond their own recordings. The available details establish SB THE LABEL’s first three artists and Gunna’s CEO position, but do not outline a release schedule or additional operational plans.

Ella Mai arrives during her third-album era

Ella Mai brings a separate, current album chapter to the concert. Her third studio album, Do You Still Love Me?, was released this year, with Mustard credited as executive producer. An executive producer role may vary from project to project, but generally signals high-level creative direction and coordination around an album, rather than a promise that the executive producer made every individual track.

Her North American tour announcement connected the album with 28 headline dates and named AMA and Girlfriend as support. The N.C. A&T date therefore sits alongside a broader live push for the project, even though it is part of a multi-artist homecoming program rather than one of those stated headline dates.

The pairing of Gunna and Ella Mai places rap and contemporary R&B at the center of the evening. Yung Miami, KWN and BabyChiefDoit fill out the announced lineup, giving the program a larger group of performers instead of treating the concert as a single-headliner event.

KWN’s 2026 project adds another new-release connection

KWN, the East London singer and producer, released all pride aside in June. The 11-song project followed with all due respect and her “worst behaviour” remix with Kehlani. “touch myself” and “idea of love” are among the songs on the newer project.

That recent material is useful context for the concert’s programming: KWN is not simply appearing on a legacy-oriented bill. Her inclusion adds a performer attached to a 2026 release, while Ella Mai and Gunna each arrive with their own recent projects and activity. It is a lineup built around artists moving through distinct stages of active careers rather than a one-genre, one-generation package.

For readers keeping an eye on performance news across music and sports-adjacent events, MC Lyte’s scheduled WNBA Finals Game 7 halftime appearance is another example of how major live bookings can turn a wider event into part concert, part cultural moment.

Sunday moves to gospel at the Tanger Center

The homecoming concerts continue Sunday, November 1, with Kirk Franklin at the Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts. Kierra Sheard Kelly and the university’s Fellowship Gospel Choir are set to join him.

Two Sunday performances are listed: one at 1 p.m. and another at 6:30 p.m. The split between Saturday’s Hip-Hop and R&B concert at First Horizon Coliseum and Sunday’s gospel program at the Tanger Center gives the weekend two clearly different musical settings. It also means attendees should not assume that details for the Saturday event carry over to Sunday’s separate venue and showtimes.

What to know before heading to First Horizon Coliseum

The practical details matter as much as the lineup, especially because the Saturday concert falls on Halloween. First Horizon Coliseum lists prepaid parking and mobile tickets for the event. It also operates cash-free for parking, tickets and concessions: cards are accepted for those purchases, and most terminals accept mobile payment options.

“Cash-free” does not mean every payment method will work in every circumstance; it means guests should plan on using a payment card or compatible mobile wallet rather than bringing cash for the listed venue purchases. Anyone who normally budgets an event with physical cash should account for that before arriving.

Costume planning also needs to account for the venue’s prohibited-items policy. Costume masks are listed among prohibited items. A Halloween outfit may still be possible without a mask, but attendees should not rely on the venue allowing one through security.

Quick-entry checklist for the Saturday show

  • Date and time: Saturday, October 31, beginning at 7:30 p.m.
  • Venue: First Horizon Coliseum in Greensboro.
  • Announced performers: Gunna, Ella Mai, Yung Miami, KWN and BabyChiefDoit.
  • Ticket format: Mobile tickets are listed for the event.
  • Parking: Prepaid parking is listed.
  • Payment: Bring a card or mobile-payment option; cash is not accepted for parking, tickets or concessions.
  • Bag limit: Small clutch bags may measure up to 4.5 by 6.5 inches.
  • Do not count on storage: The building does not provide bag check services or lockers.
  • Halloween reminder: Costume masks are on the prohibited-items list.

The absence of a bag check or lockers is especially important. Guests should choose what they bring with the expectation that oversized or prohibited items cannot simply be stored at the building. The stated small-clutch measurement is not a suggestion to push beyond the limit; it is the clearest size guidance provided for this event context.

Why the logistics are part of the event

Homecoming concerts can be easy to frame solely through the performers, but the venue rules determine much of the real attendee experience. Mobile ticketing affects how people enter. Prepaid parking can affect arrival planning. A cash-free purchasing policy affects how guests pay once inside. The mask prohibition affects costumes on a date when costumes are likely to be part of the conversation.

None of those details changes the music program, but each can prevent an avoidable problem at the door or concession stand. The most sensible approach is simple: use the venue’s current event and policy information before travel, keep digital tickets accessible, bring an accepted payment method, and pack light enough that there is no need for a bag check the Coliseum does not offer.

With Gunna at the top of the Saturday bill and Kirk Franklin anchoring Sunday’s gospel shows, N.C. A&T’s centennial homecoming weekend is set to close with two distinct live-music programs across two Greensboro venues.