By the time his current tour ends, native New Yorker Billy Joel [ tickets ] will have played at least a dozen hometown shows.

Joel has rolled out a twelfth show that will take place April 24 at Madison Square Garden, tickets for which hit the box office Saturday (2/4).

The piano man, who launched his tour in Florida last month, has already played two shows in the Big Apple, and a third is scheduled for Thursday night (2/2). Five subsequent February performances at MSG are also planned, as are a pair of concerts in both March and April. Details are included below.

Joel's current tour is his first major solo outing since the late '90s. The hitmaker is working his way through a leisurely itinerary that largely comprises non-consecutive, multi-night runs throughout the Northeast. Since launching the jaunt back on Jan. 7, he has performed only eight shows, the most recent of which took place Sunday (1/30) in Boston.

The outing in part supports "My Lives," a box set that Columbia Records issued last November. The four-disc collection chronicles Joel's career "from his early '60s Long Island bar bands through his biggest hits to his most recent classical compositions," according to a press release. The set includes demos, live cuts, alternate takes, covers and more.

In addition to the audio discs, the set includes a DVD of Joel's June 18, 1994 concert in Frankfurt, Germany. More details about the set are posted at his website.