EPGB Tour

Every Praise Gets Better.

A fan archive of the 2017 reunion tour that crossed thirty-plus cities — Bishop Hezekiah Walker, Israel Houghton, and a roll call of Black church sanctuaries from Pittsburgh to Shreveport, Memphis to Decatur.

See the route What this is
2017 banner art for the Every Praise Gets Better Reunion Tour: bold black background with white display type stacked 'EVERY PRAISE BETTER' and 'GETS' on its side, with cursive 'Reunion Tour' beneath, and graphic flourishes in yellow, red, blue and teal.
From the 2017 archive Tour banner art — Hezekiah Walker + Israel Houghton

What was here

A reunion bill, on a route through Black church sanctuaries.

From summer through late 2017, Every Praise Gets Better moved through more than thirty cities — anchored by Bishop Hezekiah Walker, joined by Grammy-winning worship leader Israel Houghton, and hosted not by amphitheatres but by congregations.

  1. Aug 2017

    The reunion tour kicks off — Pittsburgh, Newark, Washington DC. Three sanctuaries in three nights.

  2. Sep 2017

    The South and Midwest leg: Jacksonville, Norfolk, Shreveport, Dallas, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Columbus.

  3. Nov 2017

    The autumn run: St. Louis, Richmond, Baltimore, Houston, Dallas (second pass), Philadelphia, Decatur.

  4. After

    The site went quiet, then dark. The domain has bounced through reseller pools ever since.

Artifact

The flyer.

The same image ran on the homepage, the favicon, and every show page. A reminder that gospel-tour design language in 2017 still meant something loud, primary-colored, and unmistakably alive.

"Tickets On Sale Now" — featuring Hezekiah Walker + Israel Houghton. EPGBTOUR.COM, with the WordPress "wolf-tour-dates" plugin underneath.

The 2017 EPGB tour promotional flyer: black background with bold white display type reading 'EVERY PRAISE GETS BETTER Reunion Tour' over portraits of Bishop Hezekiah Walker and worship leader Israel Houghton.

From the archive

What survived.

Three images, recovered from the Wayback Machine snapshots of the live WordPress site (2017–2025). Everything else — the show-page flyers, the Facebook event posters, the embedded promo videos — is gone.

The promotional flyer that ran on the original site — "Tickets On Sale Now" — featuring portraits of both headliners.
Tour flyer. The promotional flyer that ran on the original site — "Tickets On Sale Now" — featuring portraits of both headliners.
A wider rendering of the tour banner; the same graphic language ran across the WordPress site, Facebook, and Instagram.
Banner art. A wider rendering of the tour banner; the same graphic language ran across the WordPress site, Facebook, and Instagram.
Square cut of the flyer used as the favicon and Apple touch icon throughout the live run.
Site mark. Square cut of the flyer used as the favicon and Apple touch icon throughout the live run.

What this is

Three things to know before reading on.

01

A church-by-church bill

No arena tour. The route ran through Ebenezer Baptist, Greater Mt. Calvary, Shiloh, Brookland, Empowerment Temple, Sharon, and a dozen more.

02

Two voices, one stage

Bishop Hezekiah Walker and Israel Houghton — Brooklyn gospel and Pentecostal worship, in the same building, on the same night.

03

A receipt, not a relaunch

This site is not the tour. The tour is over. This is a quiet attempt to keep the route, the dates, and the venues from disappearing entirely.

A note from the archivist

Tours end.
Their routes shouldn't.

The Every Praise Gets Better Reunion Tour is over. Bishop Hezekiah Walker is still leading worship; Israel Houghton is still on the road. If you sang at one of these services, took a photo, or kept a flyer — get in touch. We're trying to keep the picture from fading.

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