Jackie Evans is halfway through a club run that ends with two nights at Le Poisson Rouge

The New York singer-songwriter plays Somerville tonight, then Woodstock, Pittsburgh and Chicago before closing out in Manhattan in December.

If you're in greater Boston and looking for something to do on a Thursday night, here's a small room with a piano in it. Jackie Evans plays The Rockwell in Somerville tonight, Nov. 5, at 8 p.m., in a room that holds about 200. It's one stop on a long fall run: our listings show 16 Jackie Evans dates across 14 On at 8 markets in the next 90 days.

Evans is a New York–based singer-songwriter and pianist, and this tour has been working its way through the kind of rooms where that setup lands best: listening rooms, small clubs and theaters where a crowd actually sits still for a song.

The first stretch is already behind her. The run went through The Mil at Cannery Hall in Nashville on Oct. 26, Eddie's Attic in the Atlanta area on Oct. 28, The Evening Muse in Charlotte on Oct. 29, Songbyrd Music House in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 2 and MilkBoy in Philadelphia last night, Nov. 4.

Here's what's still ahead in the network:

Thursday, Nov. 5: The Rockwell, Somerville (Boston), 8 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 6: Bearsville Theater, Woodstock (Hudson Valley), 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 11: Club Cafe, Pittsburgh, 8 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 12: Schubas, Chicago, 8 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 7: The Bitter End, New York, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 8, and Wednesday, Dec. 9: Le Poisson Rouge, New York, 7 p.m. both nights.

The rooms tell the story of the tour. Most of these are 140- to 230-capacity clubs: Club Cafe in Pittsburgh holds about 140, Schubas about 200, The Bitter End about 230. Those are rooms where a singer at a piano can hold the place without a lot of amplification, and where tickets for a touring songwriter with a following can go fast.

The outliers are the bookends. Bearsville Theater outside Woodstock is a 500-cap theater, a bigger stage for a Friday night in the Hudson Valley. And the tour's home stretch in New York steps up to Le Poisson Rouge, which holds about 700, for two nights back to back. Booking two consecutive nights in a room that size at home, after a night at The Bitter End, suggests Evans is expecting a hometown crowd to show up for the finale.

The run ends where it makes the most sense: three straight December nights in New York.

If you're in Boston, tonight is the night; there is no second Boston date on the list. Hudson Valley readers get a Friday-night show tomorrow. Pittsburgh and Chicago follow next week, midweek, which is usually the best time to catch a songwriter in a small room without fighting a weekend crowd. New Yorkers have the most options, with three December nights to choose from.

Tickets for each show are through the venues' own ticketing partners, linked from our show pages: See Tickets for The Rockwell, the Bearsville Theater's own box office, lh-st.com for Schubas, and TicketWeb for Club Cafe, The Bitter End and Le Poisson Rouge.

Small rooms, a piano and a long drive between them: that's the shape of this tour. Find the night that's closest to you and get a seat near the front.

Sources: Jackie Evans – The Public Theater (publictheater.org); Jackie Evans – Songbyrd Music House (songbyrddc.com)