Singer/songwriter Joseph Arthur [ tickets ] returns to North America next month with a slate of headlining shows behind the latest release in an explosion of new material from the artist.

The Ohio native kicks off the outing July 4 in Montreal, the first of three straight shows in Canada's Quebec province. The 15-city trek includes both East and West Coast swings, and runs through most of the month of July.

Indie folksinger Anna Ternheim will add support on all dates. The full schedule is included below.

Arthur is touring behind a series of EPs and a forthcoming long-player, the most recent of which is "Vagabond Skies," which surfaced earlier this month. The six-track set was produced by Arthur himself, with co-production credits going to Mathias Schneebrger and Mike Napolitano.

"Skies," the third EP in the series, follows March's "Could We Survive" and April's "Crazy Rain," and precedes the final EP in the set, "Foreign Girls," due next month, and Arthur's next full-length album, "Temporary People," which drops in September.

"When I make records, I tend to err on the side of them being too long," Arthur told Billboard.com recently. "EPs keep me in a confined space. They're like poems. Plus, the EP is like the stepchild of a record--people root for them. It's time to play with the form and the way things are done."

Arthur's most recent full-length studio album is last year's "Let's Just Be," which was recorded in Schneeberger's home studio.