Santana & The Doobie Brothers at SPAC | July 1, 2026
The Oneness Tour arrives at Albany Med Health System at SPAC on Wednesday, July 1, pairing two Rock and Roll Hall of Fame acts — Santana and The Doobie Brothers — for a co-headlining summer night in Saratoga Springs. This is not a headliner-and-opener arrangement. Both acts carry the bill equally, a structure that echoes their 2019 collaboration on the Supernatural Now tour, when the Doobie Brothers joined Santana to celebrate Supernatural’s twentieth anniversary and the fiftieth anniversary of Woodstock. Seven years later, the terms of engagement are different. Walk This Road changes what the Doobie Brothers are bringing to the stage, and the Oneness Tour is its vehicle.
About Santana
Carlos Santana founded his band in San Francisco in 1966 and spent the following six decades doing something very few guitarists ever manage: creating a sound so distinct it became its own genre category. The Afro-Latin-blues-rock fusion he pioneered placed him at #11 on Rolling Stone’s list of the greatest guitarists of all time — a ranking that understates the breadth of his influence on anyone who picked up a guitar in the 1970s. He holds ten Grammy Awards and three Latin Grammy Awards; Supernatural, released in 1999, won nine of those Grammys in a single evening, one of the most commanding sweeps in the ceremony’s history. He is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and a Kennedy Center Honoree, with more than fifty years of recording and touring behind him. At SPAC, his catalog plays to the room’s strengths — the kind of music that fills a 25,000-person amphitheater without asking it to.
About The Doobie Brothers
The Doobie Brothers bring something specific to this run. Walk This Road — their most recent studio album — is the first featuring Tom Johnston, Pat Simmons, John McFee, and Michael McDonald writing together, and the first album with McDonald as a contributing songwriter since 1980. For a band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2025 — with over 48 million albums sold and four Grammy Awards to their name — a record that actually documents the full classic-era lineup working collectively is not a minor footnote. Expect a set that draws on new material alongside the catalog that put them in every classic-rock rotation for the past four decades.
Venue: Albany Med Health System at SPAC
The Albany / Capital District anchors the Northeast leg of this tour. The July 1 SPAC date sits at the center of a tight five-show corridor: Holmdel, NJ on June 27; Mansfield, MA on June 29; Saratoga on July 1; Wantagh, NY on July 2; Bethel, NY on July 4. If you’re following this run, SPAC is its spine. The venue holds 25,000, with 5,200 sheltered seats and the rest on the lawn. SPAC members receive priority ticket access, preferred parking, and reduced fees. Outside chairs are prohibited for Live Nation events; lawn chair rentals are available on site. Bag policy allows a clutch no larger than 6" x 9" or a clear bag no larger than 12" x 6" x 12".
Tickets
Tickets are on sale now. No ticket price range was listed by SPAC or Live Nation at time of publication. VIP upgrades are available, including access to the Albany Med Health System VIP Club, Terrace Club, fast lane entry, lawn chair rentals, parking, and blanket vouchers.