Tuesday, Oct. 2

Flash of the Spirit Festival at various D.C. venues: It’s all about that search for the extraordinary and the ephemeral for Jim Thomson, who runs the D.C. booking agency Multiflora Productions, vinyl label Electric Cowbell Records and the Flash of the Spirit Worldwide Sound Festival. The festival is a month-long celebration of global music, featuring performers from around the world. The festival promises folk music from China (Zhou Family Band) and Ukraine (Kurbasy); guitar from Mali (Mamadou Kelly); 14th-century Sufi music (Falsa); ancestral music from Colombia (La Marvela) and Cuba (Septeto Santiaguero); and the classical music of Aleppo (Takht Al-Nagham), the city ravaged by the Syrian civil war, to name just a few. Through Oct. 31. Prices vary.