India.Arie will begin a fifteen-city North American tour on October 16th in Montreal. The tour comes in support of the singer-songwriter's second album, Voyage to India, which is the follow-up to her debut, the critically acclaimed, seven-time Grammy-nominated Acoustic Soul.

Despite her success, Arie hasn't altered her approach. "I haven't had to change anything about my creative process or why I'm making music or the messages I'm putting in my songs," she said. "I can still be me. 'Little Things' [the album's first single] is a blatant, put-out-there-in-plain-colors example of how I use music. I use music because it's therapeutic to me."

Slum Village, Floetry and K-OS will open for Arie on the tour.

India.Arie dates:

10/16: Montreal, St. Denis Theater
10/17: Toronto, Massey Hall
11/6: Baltimore, Murphy Fine Arts Center
11/8: Washington, D.C., DAR Constitution Hall
11/9: Atlanta, Civic Center Theater
11/10: Charlotte, NC Ovens Auditorium
11/13: Memphis, Orpheum Theater
11/14: Dallas, Bronco Bowl
11/15: Houston, H'Town's Arena Theater
11/16: New Orleans, Saenger Theater
11/17: Nashville, Ryman Auditorium
11/22: Universal City, CA, Universal Amphitheater
11/23: Oakland, Paramount Theater
11/27: Newark, NJ, New Jersey Performing Arts Center
11/29: Chicago, Auditorium Theater

CHRISTINA SARACENO
(October 3, 2002)