Moms attending this weekend's Never Could Have Made It Without Mom concerts along the East Coast were serenaded with traditional and contemporary gospel music by Marvin Sapp, Yolanda Adams, Kirk Franklin and Ricky Dillard.

Sapp, Adams and Dillard headlined the Hampton, Va., concert on Friday and Philadelphia concert Saturday at Temple University's Liacouras Center, where I caught their peformances.

Dillard and his 24-member group New G opened the Philadelphia concert, giving a foot-stomping, hand-clapping performance of six songs, including "One More Chance'' and "The Light" from their most recent release 7th Episode: Live In Toronto

Dressed in choir fashion - ladies in pink with black accents and men in black suits with pink handkerchiefs - Dillard and New G kept it up tempo throughout the set, providing danceable tunes. At one point, they "danced in the spirit'' with a cha-cha-cha and the jitterbug, Count-Basie style.

The more than three-hour show went from danceable music to praise and worship when Adams, a five-time Grammy Award winning artist and host of the syndicated The Yolanda Adams Morning Show, took the stage.

Adams, who led off with her song "I Believe," deviated from singing her catalog of music to jazzing up traditional songs such as "What A Friend We Have in Jesus'' and "Oh, How I love Jesus."

If there was a sermon in this concert, Adams was the one who came to preach. An ordained minister, she focused her set on the purpose of the church and its mission. "The church should be the hospital. the ER,'' she said, not long before ending with her signature songs "The Battle is Not Yours'' and "Be Blessed.''

Sapp rounded out the Philadelphia concert.

The Stellar Award-winning minister whose "Never Would Have Made It'' hit song last year kept him at the top of the gospel and R&B charts for 49 weeks, announced that the fan favorite is also the first to go platinum with ring tones on cellphones.

Sapp went through a medley of his music when he sang with Commission. He brought the almost capacity crowd into his most recent music by detouring to traditional songs such as" Your Grace & Mercy" "I Know It was the Blood.'' and "What A Friend We Have in Jesus.''

He then went into full blast with "Praise Him In Advance'' and "Never Could Have Made It'' from his most recent CD Thirsty.

The Baltimore show took place yesterday, and Sapp, Adams and Franklin headlined the show at 1st Mariner Arena.