. My office is close to Mylapore (luckily).I had the oppurtunity to listen to the artists who performed between 12 to 1.30 slot and 1.30 to 3 slot. I used to spend atleast 90 minutes between these time slots which gave me a fair idea about how the artistes of both slots perform. I have been doing this for more than 4 years now and find that there is a lot of improvement year by year on selection of artistes.
Though i do not remember the names, this year I heard rare peaces like Anname (Varnam), a pada varnam in Nattaikurinji, a grand surutti alapana followed by Geetharthamu, a good delineation of Nayaki followed by Ranganayakam. And krithis like Paralokha bhaya (Mandari), Deva Deva(poorvi kalyani) etc which were sung very well. But it was mostly female artistes who faired better than the male ones.
The common unchanged scene that i have been noticing in the last 4 years in MFAC is the crowd at lunch hall is much bigger than the handful or dozens listening inside the concert hall
Can somebody list out the names and profiles of some Budding artistes of 2010 and also the Junior ones who could move up the ladder with more chances and recognitions from the institutions?
In our concert review section i could see only the repeated reviews of TNS, Vijay Siva, Sanjay, Ranjani Gayathri, and the other popular Gayathris
Am sure our forum members are far versatile and open to listen to several new artistes, but somehow not getting to see the posts on youngsters. 
