When a 32-date North American tour needs a place to begin, choosing Bethel Woods — the amphitheater built on the grounds where Woodstock happened — says something deliberate about what kind of night this is meant to be. Toto, Christopher Cross, and The Romantics open their Summer 2026 run on the Bethel, New York stage on Wednesday, July 15, a billing that pairs three acts with a combined tally of Grammy Awards, platinum records, and somewhere north of a century of collective live miles. This is the second consecutive summer that Toto and Christopher Cross have taken this touring partnership to North American amphitheaters; the lineup has been adjusted from 2025, with The Romantics stepping in where Men at Work played last year. The configuration works.
About Toto
Forty-eight years into their run as a performing ensemble, Toto remain one of the more defensible bookings in the legacy-rock touring market. Led by guitarist Steve Lukather and vocalist Joseph Williams, the band carries a catalog that has only grown in reach since the streaming era reshuffled the deck. “Africa” has crossed two billion plays on Spotify, RIAA Diamond-certified at approximately eleven million sales, while “Hold the Line” sits past one billion streams and triple-platinum status. “Rosanna” — double platinum — and a set full of deep cuts fill out a night that can satisfy the crowd that bought the vinyl and the one that discovered them through an algorithm. Worth noting: more than half of Toto’s annual streams now come from listeners 34 and under. That changes who you’ll be standing next to on the Bethel Woods lawn.
The support billing rewards early arrival. Christopher Cross, a friend and collaborator of Toto’s for over four decades, remains the only artist in Grammy history to have won all four top categories — Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist — in a single ceremony. That was 1980. “Sailing” and “Arthur’s Theme” still hold. The Romantics, the Detroit outfit formed on Valentine’s Day 1977, are the kind of set-opener that amphitheater audiences forget they wanted until Wally Palmar is already into the second verse of “What I Like About You.”
About Bethel Woods
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts occupies the original Woodstock festival site in Sullivan County, roughly two and a half hours south of Albany. The outdoor amphitheater holds 16,000, and it is one of the better-run large venues in the Hudson Valley — the sight lines are generous, the grounds are well maintained, and the on-site Museum at Bethel Woods gives the property a cultural weight that most sheds cannot claim. For a bill like this one, the setting is apt. General gates open at 5:15 PM; showtime is 6:45 PM. Premium options include Green Room pre-show access with museum admission, reserved lawn seating with chair rental, premium parking in Lot D, and on-site camping for those making a full occasion of it.
Tickets & Pricing
Tickets for the July 15 show at Bethel Woods range from $35.00 to $236.00, inclusive of taxes and fees. Buy tickets here.