Being named after Duane Allman by a father who played guitar in the Allman Brothers Band is a biography compressed into a birth certificate. Duane Betts has spent two decades working through what that means. Isle of Hope, his June 2026 release on Sun Records, is the record where he stopped working around it and started reckoning with it directly. The Isle of Hope Tour brings that album to Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on Thursday, October 8, at 8 p.m.
About the Show
Isle of Hope was recorded in five days in autumn 2024 at Grammy-winning producer Dave Cobb’s Savannah studio (the album takes its name from the Isle of Hope community in Georgia where the sessions took place), in the months following the death of Betts’ father and mentor, Dickey Betts, on April 18, 2024. The ten-track album, co-written with longtime collaborator Stoll Vaughan, works through loss, resilience, and what Betts described as “a new sense of personal clarity and conviction.” Betts said of the record: “I hope these songs resonate and can pull you up and into the light. Music has always been a place where we meet through our experiences.” Guitar World called it “a thoroughly vintage rocker, full of whip-smart playing”; Blues Rock Review declared it “the most compelling statement of his career.”
Betts carries a long biography into this room. He co-founded the Allman Betts Band with Devon Allman in 2018 before turning to solo work; his 2023 debut LP, Wild & Precious Life, drew collaborators including Derek Trucks and Marcus King and earned wide notice — No Depression wrote that it “secures Betts’ place in the pantheon of great Southern rockers.” Isle of Hope is darker, more focused, and by all available accounts the most fully his own. Palmetto Motel on this tour features Johnny Stachela (guitar/vocals), Pedro Arevalo (bass/vocals), Vincent Fossett Jr. (drums), and Max Butler (B-3 organ).
Venue & Logistics
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts occupies the grounds of the original 1969 Woodstock festival, which gives it a particular gravity for any act working in the American rock tradition. The 16,000-capacity outdoor amphitheater is the largest room on the fall leg of the Isle of Hope Tour by a wide margin; most of the run plays theaters and club-level performing arts centers. Bethel is in the Hudson Valley. Show time is 8 p.m.
Tickets
No ticket price was available from sources at the time of publication. Tickets go on sale Friday, August 21, 2026, via Ticketmaster. Buy tickets