Carlos Santana and The Doobie Brothers are rolling through Texas this week with four stops on their 2026 Oneness Tour, bringing decades of classic rock and Latin-infused hits to venues ranging from a college arena in El Paso to a city-owned arena in Dallas. The Texas swing kicks off Sunday at El Paso's Don Haskins Center before moving to Austin, The Woodlands and Dallas over the following days, with tickets still available through Ticketmaster.
The tour, led by guitarist and singer Carlos Santana, is officially billed as the Oneness Tour with The Doobie Brothers, and Live Nation announced and promoted the run in February, setting up a major North American summer arena and amphitheater circuit, according to Santana's official site. As the El Paso Times reports, the Texas leg opens Sunday, August 16 at the Don Haskins Center in El Paso, then continues to Austin's Moody Center on August 18, the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands on August 21, and Dallas's American Airlines Center on August 22.
What Fans Might Hear on Stage
Based on a recent setlist from a stop at North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre in Chula Vista, California, courtesy of setlist.fm and cited by the same report, Santana's set has included staples like Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen, Evil Ways, Oye Como Va, and Maria Maria. Other numbers performed on that setlist include Everybody's Everything, Soul Sacrifice, Corazón Espinado, Samba Pa Ti, Jin-Go-Lo-Ba, No One to Depend On, Da Le Yaleo, Foo Foo, Batuka, Put Your Lights On, The Game of Love and Hope You're Feeling Better. The show has also featured a Benny Rietveld bass solo and a Salvador Santana solo, with encores of Toussaint L'Ouverture and Smooth closing things out.
Venue by Venue Across Texas
El Paso's Don Haskins Center, where the tour opens Sunday, seats up to 12,500 for entertainment events. The octagonal arena opened in 1977 and was renamed in 1998 for Hall of Fame basketball coach Don Haskins, according to the University of Texas at El Paso. From there, the tour heads to Austin's Moody Center, which opened in April 2022 with a $375 million construction budget and holds up to 15,000 fans for concerts, per the Moody Center.
Two days later, the tour lands at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands, an outdoor amphitheater that opened in 1990 and holds up to 16,500 guests, including 6,500 covered pavilion seats and room for 10,000 more on the lawn, according to the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. The Texas run wraps in Dallas on August 22 at the American Airlines Center, the city-owned arena that opened in 2001 for $420 million and can hold up to 21,000 concertgoers for shows; it also serves as home to the NBA's Mavericks and NHL's Stars.
Two Hall of Famers Sharing a Bill
Santana brings serious credentials to the co-headlining slot. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 and has earned 10 Grammy Awards along with three Latin Grammy Awards over a six-decade career, and his 1999 album *Supernatural* won nine Grammys in a single night, tying the record for a single album project. Santana and The Rolling Stones remain the only acts in Billboard chart history to score at least one Top 10 album in every decade from the 1960s through the 2010s, a run that started when Santana's self-titled 1969 debut spent two years on the charts.
Co-headliner The Doobie Brothers, formed in San Jose, California, in 1970, brings its own pedigree to the bill: the band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2020 and has sold over 48 million records globally while earning four Grammy Awards. That combined résumé helps explain why the Oneness Tour has drawn strong ticket demand at arenas and amphitheaters of vastly different sizes, from the college-campus setting in El Paso to the sprawling outdoor lawn in The Woodlands.
Where the Tour Heads Next
After Texas, Santana and The Doobie Brothers are booked for Kansas City's Morton Amphitheater on August 26, Shakopee, Minnesota's Mystic Lake Amphitheater on August 27, and Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado on August 24. The tour also stopped in Phoenix at the Mortgage Matchup Center on August 14, just before the Texas dates began.
Santana keeps a packed schedule beyond the Oneness Tour as well. As Hoodline previously reported in its piece on Santana's expanded Strip residency, the guitarist maintains a long-running Las Vegas residency at Mandalay Bay's House of Blues, logging over 300 performances across 14 years through 2026 at the roughly 1,800-capacity venue. That residency continues this fall with a string of House of Blues dates running from September 16 through November 15, giving fans in Nevada another chance to catch Santana even after the Texas arena and amphitheater run wraps.
