Singer/songwriter Alexa Ray Joel [ tickets ] will head out on an 18-city tour this fall, backing her self-released and independently distributed debut EP, "Sketches."

The New York-based performer, the daughter of Billy Joel [ tickets ] and Christie Brinkley, will kick off her tour Sept. 24 in Portland, OR, opening for Teddy Geiger and Holly Brook, before moving into the headlining portion of the outing starting Sept. 26 in Spokane, WA.

The first half of her itinerary concentrates on the Pacific Northwest and West Coast before sending her back to the East Coast in November. Joel will make a number of appearances at Hard Rock Cafes around the country, something she also did earlier this year.

The singer's first recorded effort, "Sketches," officially released in late August, contains six originals, and can be obtained through iTunes and also by accessing Joel's official website.

Joel was in the news recently after she passed out backstage before an early September performance at New York's Marist College. Addressing the fainting spell on her MySpace site, Joel assured her fans that the incident was nothing to worry about.

"I'm absolutely fine, and I was only in the hospital for a few hours," she wrote. ""I pretty much exhausted myself to the point that I couldn't do the show...I ended up fainting from stress, lack of sleep, and just overall exhaustion."

Joel also cited her mother's well-publicized divorce proceedings with Peter Cook as a contributing factor to her stress level.