When I lived in Olympia, my next door neighbor was a delightful woman named Diana, who like clockwork every morning (read: afternoon - I was in college) would gently strum a massive and beautiful harp in her living room.  The calming and angelic sounds wafting into my bedroom and helping to clear the fog in my head. When she wasn't playing the harp, Diana could often be found trying to convince me that raw foods could cure my Planter fasciitis. She may have been right - but that's really not important to this story. What is important is Deborah Henson-Conant, the "Electric Harpist" will be in Tacoma in March, brought to you by the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra, and the vibrations emanating from her fingers will sound almost nothing like the sleepy, atmospheric groove usually associated with the harp. It's an electric harp, after all (think of the difference between Woody Guthrie and Jimi Hendrix). Henson-Conant has toured the world and been nominated for Grammys - but her greatest achievement may be the creation of a sound no one else is even coming close to. With her self-concocted harness harp in tow, and weaving flamenco, blues and anything else that gets in her way into a jambalaya of sound and entertainment, Henson-Conant is sure to deliver a show you won't soon forget.

[Pantages Theater, Sunday, March 27, 2:30 p.m., $24-$77, 901 Broadway, Tacoma, 253.591.5890]