Our verdict: four stars.
The two women on the stage tonight share three things: Dutch heritage, entrepreneurial steel, and musical class.
Caro Emerald defied industry negativity to set up her own label before outselling Michael Jackson in the Netherlands, while Kris Berry crowdfunded 6000 euros to bring her band on this 11-date support tour, with Glasgow the last act.
The combination was an evening of real delight. Feelgood vibes? Yup. Easy listening? Maybe. But on a raw Glasgow night it felt like a fine plan.
Berry,born on Curacao in the Caribbean and a full-time musician for four years, did her warm-up job in style, showcasing pop, reggae, jazz, rock and blues, all topped with her astonishingly pure but powerful vocals.
Her last track, Rocket Man, written for the tour, could just bring her to wider acclaim.
But Emerald, aka Caroline Esmeralda van der Leeuw, shifts the Hydro into a new dimension with a live performance that belies any suggestion that she's only a purveyor of nifty ditties for Radio 2.
From the start of her 90-minute set there's a real sense of theatre. We begin with a raunchy version of Tangled up which befits a smoky Berlin nightclub.
From there, it's a well-paced journey through the two albums on her Grandmono label, harnessing an eight piece all-male band including brass strings and a sampling DJ. Novel, but it worked, especially as Emerald shuffled her troops around the stage to suit songs.
Highlights, natch, were Liquid Lunch, Back It Up and A Night Like This which all brought a genuinely 18-80 audience to their feet virtually as one to swing and sway.
And then to close the show and the tour, a return to her school play when, aged 11, she began her singing career with Dream a Little Dream of me.
Simple but dramatic. We went home happy.
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