By Karu F. Daniels, AOL Black Voices

To no one's surprise, R. Kelly won't be in court this holiday season. Instead, the multi-platinum selling R&B dynamo will be taking his show on the road and bumping and grinding in cities across the country.

And get this: the self-proclaimed "Pied Piper" taking some of the hottest young R&B chart-toppers out on a cross-country trek.

Hip-Hop Soul princess Keyshia Cole, du jour songwriter/crooner Ne-Yo breakout newcomer J. Holiday will all support Kelly for his "Double Up" tour, which kicks off Nov. 14 in Columbus, Georgia. The near 40-city tour, presented by the Atlanta-based concert promotion firm Rowe Entertainment Inc., helmed by industry veteran Leonard Rowe, will make stops in New York, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Miami, Los Angeles and Kelly's hometown of Chicago.

Confirmed tour dates are listed below.

The 'Down Low (Nobody Has to Know)' singer's last tour, the Spring 2006 "Light It Up" Tour, played to near sell-out audiences in 43 cities, before bringing down the curtain before what the Sacramento Bee described as a "nearly delirious Mother's Day crowd" in Sacramento's Memorial Auditorium.

Rowe plans on building upon that success.

"The 'Double Up' Tour is going to be one of the biggest productions in the course of R. Kelly's career, so understandably there's a great deal of anticipation and much to look forward to," he told The BV Newswire today. "This tour represents one of our company's many achievements and most certainly one of the biggest tours in black music history."

The tour follows Kelly's latest No. 1 debut "Double Up," which was certified platinum within three months of its release. He recently wrote, directed and starred in the sequel to his Grammy Award nominated video saga 'Trapped in the Closet.'

Cole, who currently appears on the cover of the Oct. 2007 edition of Essence magazine, stormed the R&B/Hip-Hop charts with her sophomore opus 'Just Like You.'

Ne-Yo, currently working on new music projects with Whitney Houston, Britney Spears and Jennifer Hudson, released his sophomore set 'Because of You' last spring, amassing near 820,000 copies in sales to date.

Lastly, the Washington, D.C. based singer-songwriter J. Holiday has sold more than 100,000 copies of his debut album, 'Back of my Lac,' off the strength of his No. 1 hit single, 'Bed.'

"We have formed a terrific line-up, to provide concertgoers with some of today's best contemporary urban musical talent as well as state-of-the-art, eye-popping production values, and a guaranteed good time," Rowe added.

DOUBLE UP TOUR DATES

Nov 14 Columbus, GA Columbus Civic Center
Nov 15 Atlanta Phillips Arena
Nov 16 Greensboro Greensboro Coliseum
Nov 17 Birmingham BJCC
Nov 18 Charlotte Bobcat Arena
Nov 21 Philadelphia Wachovia Center
Nov 22 Newark Prudential Center
Nov 23 New York Nassau Coliseum
Nov 24 Baltimore 1st Mariner
Nov 25 Washington DC Verizon Center
Nov 29 Little Rock Alltel Arena
Nov 30 New Orleans New Orleans Arena
Dec 1 Dallas American Airlines Arena
Dec 2 Houston Toyota Center
Dec 6 Minneapolis Target Center
Dec 7 Kansas City Sprint Center
Dec 8 Indianapolis Conseco Fieldhouse
Dec 9 Memphis Fed Ex Forum
Dec 13 Las Vegas Mandalay Bay
Dec 14 Los Angeles Staples Center
Dec 15 Oakland Oakland Arena (Oracle)
Dec 16 Sacramento ARCO Arena
Dec 20 Chicago United Center
Dec 21 Chicago United Center
Dec 22 Detroit Joe Louis Arena
Dec 23 Detroit Joe Louis Arena
Dec 27 Charleston North Charleston Coliseum
Dec 28 Orlando Amway
Dec 29 Columbia Colonial Center
Dec 30 Jacksonville Veteran Memorial
Dec 31 Miami American Airlines Arena
Jan 4 Cleveland Wolstein Center
Jan 5 Louisville Kentucky Expo Center
Jan 6 St Louis Scottrade
Jan 9 Savannah Savannah Civic Center
Jan 10 Greenville Bi-Lo Center
Jan 11 Richmond Richmond Coliseum
Jan 13 Hampton Hampton Coliseum

AOL VIDEO: R. Kelly -- 'Rockstar' (w/Ludacris and Kid Rock)

AOL VIDEO: J. Holiday -- 'Bed'