Generous donors for 16 percussion students to learn Afro-Cuban percussion were thanked at an awards ceremony on Friday.

Music professor Eddie Ming, who teaches drumming from the Rhythm Lab in St George’s, presented certificates to the youngsters.

Aged 4 to 15, the group just finished phase three of the Intensive Drum and Percussion Cultural summer camp.

“The objective of today is also to thank all the people that I call friends of the Rhythm Lab,” Mr Ming said. “Their donations have covered these scholarships.”

The two-week Afro Cuban percussion camp set for October will feature Angel Luis, freshly graduated from the Amadeo Roldán conservatory of music in Cuba, where Mr Ming first taught in a 2008 visit to the island. As a token of gratitude, Mr Ming dedicated a book of studies for the traditional drum set in the school’s name, and donated copies.

Mr Ming added: “This programme has been in the making since I met Angel in 2010, at the Caturla School of Music, in Havana. He is now 20 years old.”

The two will hold the intensive camp from October 21 to November 1.

A special class is on offer at West Pembroke Primary School on October 29, sponsored by Sabian Cymbal Makers of New Brunswick, Canada.

It is open to primary 1 to 3 students from 10am to 10.45am, and primary 4 to 6 students from 11am to 11.45am.

To learn more, call 297-8422 or 297-2874, or e-mail emingflatride@btcnet.bm.

Awarded on Friday were students King Gibson, Riley Ingham-Gibbons, Cory Berkeley, Treshon Gordon, Isaiah Lightbourne, Tyreeque Terlong, Cairo Tucker, Max Ley, George Furbert, Rico Minks, Cayden Spencer, ReMai Spencer, Nauray Ascento, ZacChaeus Grant, Dasia-Nae Scott and Shaunyae Hassell.