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Ingrid Michaelson will be hitting the road in June to headline a month-long tour before making multiple appearances on the festival circuit later this fall.

Michaelson’s debut, Girls & Boys, was released in 2007. The album has produced several hits, including “The Way I Am,” which was featured in a snuggly sweater-themed Old Navy holiday ad campaign last December. She was also one of four artists to compose a song for Running With Scissors author Augusten Borroughs’ new audiobook A Wolf at the Table. Michaelson’s “Spare Change” appears alongside tracks from Patti Smith, Sea Wolf and Tegan Quin (of Tegan and Sara.)

The Staten Island songbird recently wrapped up a stint on the Hotel Café tour with artists including Cary Brothers and Joshua Radin. The tour was sponsored by Hollywood’s famed Hotel Café, which has been known as a premiere venue for up and coming singer-songwriters for years.

Michaelson’s solo tour will kick off June 1 in Philadelphia, and wrap up June 28 in Salt Lake City. She will also be hitting the music festival circuit this year, with performances at Denver’s Mile High Festival, Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival and Austin City Limits, just to name a few.

The singer-songwriter will be taking a short break from touring on May 12, though, to perform at the children’s ward of Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. Michaelson’s performance was organized by Project Sunshine, a non-profit that serves children and families affected by serious medical challenges. She’ll also take the stage at the organization’s fifth annual Project Sunshine Gala that evening at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

Dates:

May
7 - Nashville, Tenn. @ The Belcourt (w/ Josh Ritter)
15 - Boston, Mass. @ Berklee Performance Center
18 - Rochester, N.Y. @ Lilac Festival 2008
28 - Columbia, Md. @ Merriweather Post Pavilion (w/ Sheryl Crow & Ray LaMontagne)
29 - Northampton, Mass. @ Calvin Theatre (w/ Ray LaMontagne)
31 - Hunter, N.Y. @ WDST Mountain Jam Festival

June
1 - Philadelphia, Pa. @ The Fillmore - Theatre of Living Arts
2 - Pittsburgh, Pa. @ Mr. Smalls Theatre
4 - Louisville, Ky. @ Headliners
5 - Chicago, Ill. @ Park West
6 - Minneapolis, Minn. @ Fine Line Music Café
7 - Madison, Wisc. @ Barrymore Theater
9 - Nashville, Tenn. @ Exit/In
10 - Atlanta, Ga. @ Variety Playhouse
11 - Orlando, Fla. @ The Social
12 - St. Petersburg, Fla. @ State Theatre
13 - Jacksonville, Fla. @ Jack Rabbits
14 - Birmingham, Ala. @ City States Festival
16 - Greenville, S.C. @ Handlebar
17 - Carrboro, N.C. @ Cat's Cradle
18 - Richmond, Va. @ Toad's Place
19 - Towson, Md. @ Recher Theatre
20 - New York, N.Y. @ Terminal 5
22 - San Francisco, Calif. @ Golden Gate Festival
23 - Anaheim, Calif. @ House of Blues
24 - Los Angeles, Calif. @ El Rey Theatre
25 - San Diego, Calif. @ House of Blues
26 - Tucson, Ariz. @ Club Congress
28 - Salt Lake City, Utah @ Avalon Theater

July
1 - Kansas City, Mo. @ The Beaumont Club
2 - St. Louis, Mo. @ The Pageant
3 - Milwaukee, Wisc. @ Summerfest
6 - Rothbury, Mich. @ Rothbury Festival
13 - Philadelphia, Pa. @ WXPN Festival
20 - Denver, Colo. @ Mile High Festival
22 - Omaha, Neb. @ Qwest Center (w/ Dave Matthews Band)
25 - Noblesville, Ind. @ Verizon Wireless Music Center (w/ Dave Matthews Band)
26 - Noblesville Ind. @ Verizon Wireless Music Center (w/ Dave Matthews Band)
29 - Columbus, Ohio @ Crew Stadium (w/ Dave Matthews Band)
30 - Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio @ Blossom Music Center (w/ Dave Matthews Band)

August
23 - Staten Island, N.Y. @ Edgewater Festival
26 - Binghamton, N.Y. @ Anderson Center for the Performing Arts
31 - Seattle, Wash. @ Bumbershoot Festival

September
26 - Austin, Texas @ Austin City Limits Festival

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Hometown: Staten Island, N.Y.
Fun fact: Michaelson isn't necessarily looking to get rich off of her music; she just wants enough money to add to the retirement fund she recently started. Wait, retirement fund? “I'm totally, like, neurotic,” she says.
Why she's worth watching: She's just like her music: independent enough to be intriguing (she has rebuffed the record labels that have approached her) but accessible enough for prime-time TV (she's been on Grey's Anatomy four times).
For fans of: Regina Spektor, Feist, Tina Fey

Ingrid Michaelson has a self-described "librarian chic" (she wears glasses), cinnamon-color eyes that match her hair, a crystalline voice she softens with a touch of vibrato, and a fantastically twisty approach to songcraft. “I like obvious, catchy songs, but done in a non-obvious way,” says Michaelson, who has self-released both of her albums, 2005's Slow the Rain, and the relationship-focused Girls and Boys (approximately one-third of the latter was heard on Grey’s Anatomy this past season).

Michaelson also has a dry sense of humor. We knew she was born on Staten Island, but when we asked if she’d always lived there, she replied that she had once spent a year in Brooklyn. “Oh, really? What part?” we inquired, figuring Michaelson would name one of the borough’s hipsterized neighborhoods like Williamsburg. “It’s called… I blocked it out of my memory,” she says, her face serious. “It’s called Rats, Mice and Cockroaches.”

Maybe she was in a particularly droll mood on the damp afternoon we chatted with her in Manhattan. Or maybe somebody who is on the brink but still has to tour in her mom’s minivan has to keep things in perspective. Michaelson was discovered on MySpace and, in September, Old Navy chose her tune “The Way I Am” for a sweater commercial. But the singer hasn't forgotten how she reached these early successes: by being proactive.

“Every day, my manager and I have a list. There’s a ‘goals’ list, and there’s a ‘to-do’ list, and it’s very detailed,” explains Michaelson, her amber eyes flashing behind her spectacles. “It’s work.”