A brief winter outing by Ben Folds has expanded to now include over a dozen dates over the eastern part of the US as well as Canada.

The theater and club outing will be kicking off in Princeton, NY on February 11 and now continues through March 1. Since last check an additional nine cities have been scheduled, including Atlanta, Cincinnati and Baltimore.

Miniature Tigers, a geek rocker up and coming band, will be opening the shows for Folds. The band from Phoenix released “Tell It To the Volcano,” their debut album, on iTunes. This spring the set will be out in stores.

Fold is continuing to support “Way to Normal,” the third solo album of his career. It was released in September and landed on Billboard’s 200 chart in the No. 11 spot. “You Don’t Know Me,” the lead track that features Regina Spektor, made the Top 30 list for Triple A radio. The single along with a few others are streaming on the MySpace page for Ben Folds.

Dennis Herring, who has also worked with Modest Mouse and Elvis Costello was the producer for “Way to Normal.” The album features Ben Folds on piano and vocals, Jared Reynolds on bass and Sam Smith on drums. Last summer the musicians tricked their fans by leaking a fake album version over the internet.

Folds said, we wrote songs that were completely new around the titles. We basically wrote the lyrics in the airport and on the airplane while we were on our way to the UK from the continent.

Then the band booked a studio and for eight to ten hours recorded, then mixed and mastered the set before immediately releasing it to the internet.

Folds said, people were really confused. Fans started to figure out that it was bull. We were able to see people react.

Folds also said that there were some fake tunes rivaling the real album songs. The joke tracks are available to Folds fan club members on a two disc set that was recently released called “Way to Normal: Stems and Seeds.”