June

June 3 // BananaAcid + Nico Daglio-Fine @TBA

June 6 // Nick Dunston with Tomeka Reid, Ben Lamar Gay, Julian Otis & Caroline Jesalva @Lampo

June 8 // Solo Tour: show @Headlong Theatre (Philadelphia, PA)

June 10 // Solo Tour: show @Rhizome (Washington DC)

June 13 // Solo Tour: show @Spot Tavern (Lafayette, IN)

June 14 // Jesalva/Kleijn @Bridgeport Music Collective (Chicago, IL)

June 19 // Naydja Bruton / Caroline Jesalva @Cultural Center Tangible Sounds Exhibit

June 26 // Rhythm Ninjas @Logan Square Arts Festival

June 28 // Crossing Borders Music: Courage, Faith, and Love; Rohingya Music in Exile @Skokie Public Library

June 29 // Katinka Kleijn and Caroline Jesalva: Female Iconography @Comfort Station

May

May 30 // BananaAcid @ProMusica

May 31 // Bill Harris/Caroline Jesalva @NotNot

April

April 9 // Clausen / Jesalva + Dessel / Hatcher @Stola Contemporary Art

April 10 // Solo Show @Schoolhouse !

April 12 // Crossing Borders Music: Songs of Peru @Evanston Public Library

April 17 // Manual Cinema’s The 4th Witch @Iowa City Hancher Auditorium

March

March 7 // Crossing Borders Music:From Exile @Granville, OH

March 13 // Twilight Choir @Collider

March 16 // Amalia Juliane Band @The Lowdown

March 17 // BananaAcid @Subterranean

March 20 // McDonald / Jesalva @Hungry Brain

March 22 // BananaAcid @Bridgeport Music Collective

March 26 // Ro Lundberg / Caroline Jesalva @Color Club

March 27 // Solo Show @Stola Contemporary Art

February

February 5 // Improvised Music Series @Elastic Arts

February 6 // Duo w/ Adam Shead @Comfort Station Gala

February 20 // Stories of Exile and Hope @Ashland Chamber Music Society

February 22 // 20/20 Plastic @The Color Club

February 24 // Benefit Concert @Solidarity Studios

February 26 // The Lunar New Year Radio Show @bimbom

February 28 // Dark Matter Series w/ Naydja Bruton @Elastic Arts

January

January 9 // Trio w/ Tyler Wagner + Zander Raymond / BananaAcid @SchoolHouse

January 8 // Haitian String Quartets @University of Chicago Fulton Recital Hall

January 14 // Jack Sandstrom Quartet @Clara Chicago

January 17 // joygarden @Libertyville First Presbyterian

January 18 // Clausen/Jesalva @The Hungry Brain

January 21 // Dimensions & Extensions @Constellation

January 24 // Andrew Scott Young Quartet @Lemon Chicago

January 30 // Freedom From Freedom To @Steppenwolf Theater

From 2025

December 19 // BananaAcid @BimBom Studios

December 18 // Improvised Music Series @Elastic Arts Foundation

December 13 // Elastro Series @Elastic Arts Foundation

December 10 // Something to Read Release Party @Torn Light Records

December 6 // Freedom From Freedom To @Elastic Arts Foundation

December 4 // BananaAcid plays Improvised Music Series @Elastic Arts Foundation

December 3 // Sarah Beth Thomas Quartet @Clara Chicago

November 22 // solo twenty-fifth rotation around the sun @Compound Yellow

November 21 // BananaAcid @Stola Contemporary

November 17 // Abasement #82 w/ Truffles @Artists Space (NYC)

November 15 // Duo w/ Aaron Kaufman-Levine @Brothers Wash & Dry (NYC)

November 6-9 // Manual Cinema, The 4th Witch @Arts Emerson (Boston)

November 2 // BananaAcid plays Music in the Garden Festival @Elastic Arts Foundation

October 31 // BananaAcid Halloween Live Scoring of A Page of Madness! @Compound Yellow

October 29 // Purikoko x Caroline Jesalva Tour (Pittsburgh)

October 28 // Purikoko x Caroline Jesalva Tour (Philadelphia)

October 26 // Joygarden (The Middle) @Elastic Arts Foundation

October 17 // Hannah Frances Expanded Ensemble @Constellation

October 15 // Caroline Jesalva x Adam Shead duo @Tangible Books

October 14 // 20/20 Plastic @The Checkout

October 10 // Michael Malis Quartet @Edgefest25 (Michigan)

October 4, 3pm // Ear Taxi Festival: out of context: new works for solo violin @Logan Centre for the Arts

October 4, 6:30pm // Monde: Elixir of Immortality with Irene Hsiao, Amanda Maraist, Darling Shear, and Kedgrick Pullum @CAMOC

September 28 // Duo with Dan Galat @6018 North

September 24 // BananaAcid @The Hideout opening for Sarah Clausen’s album release!

September 19 // Jesalva/Kleijn @Bridgeport Music Collective

September 12-14 // Rhino Festival @Labyrinth Arts Club

September 10 // Songs from An Island That Doesn’t Exist @Fulton Street Collective

August 23 // BananaAcid + Wild Indigo @Narloch Studios

August 21 // Sarah Clausen x Caroline Jesalva @Empty Bottle

August 20 // Splice Series @Beat Kitchen

August 17 // 20/20 Plastic @Super Special Secret Loft Show (dm for address)

August 3-9 // Etchings Contemporary Music Festival @Bombyx Center for the Arts

August 2 // Joe Morris Counter Spectacle @Marmalade

July 31 // Joe Morris Counter Spectacle @Elastic Arts

July 12 // BananaAcid Fruit Stand Variety Show @Positive Space Studios (Chicago)

June 27 // Freedom From And Freedom To @Chicago Justice Gallery (Chicago)

June 22 // BananaAcid Album Release: UNIO MYSTICA Show @Midnight Tea (Chicago)

June 14// Impro Jam @Comfort Station

June 3// 20/20 Plastic @The Hideout

May 29// Adiaphora Orchestra @Comfort Station

May 3// Harris/Jesalva/Wagner @Compound Yellow

May 1// BananaAcid @Comfort Station

April 26// Joygarden @The Red Room

April 24// Sarah Clausen/Caroline Jesalva @Elastic Arts

April 13// Ollie Becker Quartet presented by nonevent (Boston)

March 29// 20/20 plastic for Pleiades Series: Night of Song @Elastic Arts

March 29// 5th solo: twenty-fourth rotation around the sun @Comfort Station

March 16// Eclipsed Bodies (Jesalva/Kleijn) @International Museum of Surgical Science

March 14// Eclipsed Bodies (Jesalva/Kleijn) @International Museum of Surgical Science

March 13// Heavy Air Happy Hour @Cafe Mustache

March 1// Banana Acid @May Chapel Rosehill Cemetery

February 28// 4th solo: twenty-fourth rotation around the sun @BimBom Studios

January 21// Adiaphora Orchestra @The Color Club

From 2024

December 19// Jesalva/Kleijn @Elastic Arts

November 20// Joygarden @Clara Chicago

November 9-10// Music In the Garden Fest @Elastic Arts

November 8// 3rd solo: twenty-fourth rotation around the sun @Comfort Station

October 10// Heavy Air Happy Hour @Cafe Mustache

September 21// 2nd solo: twenty-fourth rotation around the sun @Experimental Sound Studio

September 18// Jesalva/Kaufman-Levine @The Hungry Brain

September 11// Joygarden @Epiphany Center for the Arts

August 28// BananaAcid @Clara Chicago

July 6// Emily Beisel/Caroline Jesalva @Compound Yellow

June 20// 20/20 Plastic @Minion Manor

June 17// 20/20 Plastic @Fulton Street Collective

June 16// 20/20 Plastic @Friendly Tap

June 14// BananaAcid Fruit Stand Variety Show @The Color Club

May 17// Jesalva/Kleijn @The Hungry Brain

May 1// East Coast Contemporary Ensemble Spring Fest (NYC)

April 23// Pleiades Series @Elastic Arts

April 18// Joygarden @Fulton Street Collective

April 11// Jesalva/Kaufman-Levine @Elastic Arts

March 28// 1st solo: twenty-fourth rotation around the sun @Night School (Agitator Gallery)

March 12// BananaAcid @Fulton Street Collective

February 17// Subject to Change @San Francisco Conservatory Osher Hall

February 11// BananaAcid @The Hungry Brain