Oct. 18: Staff Benda Bilili, makes its New York City début. The band’s core consists of disabled singers and guitarists who started as homeless street musicians who lived in and around the grounds of the zoo in Kinshasa. Their name means “look beyond appearances” (literally, “put forward what is hidden”), and recently they were the subject of a French documentary that was a hit at Cannes. They’ve since recorded two albums of funky Congolese rumba, and have moved into houses of their own. They like to get around on custom, souped-up motorized tricycles, and the driving, uplifting music they make is sure to move you, too. (Symphony Space, Broadway at 95th St. For more information, call 212-545-7536 or visit worldmusicinstitute.org.)

October 18 – October 18 Symphony Space—WMI Broadway at 95th St., New York, N.Y. 212-545-7536 worldmusicinstitute.org

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