Flo Milli is set to perform at the Mullen Performance Arena for this years’ Springfest concert on April 13.
Allegheny College’s Major Events Committee announced the headliner of the event during Thursday’s lunch hour in the Campus Center lobby, just three days after announcing NLE Choppa as the opening act.
“I’m very happy to see and hear students talking about the concert and being like, ‘OMG, it’s happening!’” said ASG President Nicole Recio Bremer, ’25. “It’s a very stressful process, it’s a lot of work, but it’s obviously going to pay out.”
The MEC — a collaboration between Allegheny Student Government and the Gator Activities Programming — kept the concert tradition alive post-COVID. Flo Milli and NLE Choppa are the second performers to come to the college since the cancellation of the 2020 concert, following A Boogie wit da Hoodie’s 2022 performance. The concert is a bi-annual tradition of the college typically at the end of Springfest.
Concert tickets went on sale immediately following the announcement of the opener via the Allegheny MEC instagram account Monday, March 18. A day later, 84 students had purchased their tickets, Recio Bremer said.
To build anticipation of the event, the MEC account has been posting hints to the identity of the headliner since February.
Flo Milli is an increasingly popular hip hop artist known largely for her most popular hits, such as “Never Lose Me”, “Conceited”, and “Rodeo.” She first gained popularity after her single “Beef FloMix” went viral on TikTok during 2019 and now has released four albums. On Spotify, she has over 21 million monthly listeners and over half a billion streams, according to RCA Records.

NLE Choppa is a 21-year-old rapper from Memphis, TN with 19.3 million monthly listeners on Spotify and 5.5 billion total streams. Some of his most popular songs include “Camelot” with 513.8 million streams, “Shotta Flow” with 478.7 million streams and “SLUT ME OUT” with 311.7 million streams on Spotify.
This year ASG and GAP plan to go all out by inviting two popular young artists and moving the concert’s location from the previously established Shafer Auditorium to the Mullen’s Performance Center located at the Wise Center.
The 2022 concert sold around 400-500 tickets, according to Bremer. Shafer Auditorium sits around 1,000 people, while the Mullen Arena has a maximum capacity of about 900 people.
“We expect to have more or less the same turnout, and so we’re not really worried about capping out the tickets,” Bremer said.
The decision to change locations came from the concern for damage to the auditorium seats after the previous concert. While the auditorium seats more people, organizers recognized it is not an ideal space for a concert crowd.
“It was actually my idea to change it, because two years ago there were a lot of problems with the chairs, there was some damage because people were standing on them since there’s not a lot of standing room,” Bremer said. “It was a liability concern. The audio — obviously, Shafer is made for that. There is already a sound system implemented here, so it’s going to be a little more money to be able to bring that to the Wise Center, but we wanted to give the student experience a better concert vibe.”
They’ve already begun the planning for student accessibility, with the plan to put one of the stadium bleachers down for students to sit, as well as room on the balcony overhead.
Bremer said that since she was elected as ASG president just over a year ago the idea to have a concert this year was already in the back of her mind.
The MEC met every Wednesday with Dean for Student Life Trae Yeckley, Student Life Coordinator Gloria King, and Associate Dean of Students for Wellness Education Gretchen Beck to discuss plans for the event, including designing posters and coming up with the Instagram hints.
The committee also knew the performers about a month in advance, but nothing became public until contracts were signed. Based on that, they established a timeline for marketing and began brainstorming ways to build excitement.
“We like to have fun with that and talk about what can be a good way of making students excited and talk about the concert,” Bremer said. “It makes me happy and it makes all of the things I do behind the scenes have a meaning.”