Luan Parle – Artist and the founder / facilitator of ‘Songs of Our Place’. Meteor Award and Tatler Award Winning singer-songwriter Luan Parle has had numerous hits and accolades throughout her career including Meteor Ireland Music Award for Best Irish Female. Her top 10 hit single ‘Ghost’ spent three months in the Irish Charts. Luan has written and recorded with some of the worlds most successful songwriters & producers including Grammy award winning Bill Bottrell (Sheryl Crow, Michael Jackson, Prince, Travelling Wilburys, Elton John) & Billy Steinberg (Madonna, Roy Orbison, Cyndi Lauper, The Pretenders, Whitney Houston, The Bangles, Celine Dion). Luan is passionate about bringing creativity to peoples’ lives and, for the past 18 years, has been successfully facilitating songwriting and performance workshops & masterclasses to people of all ages, in particular in primary schools, secondary schools, colleges and festivals throughout Ireland. She is doing them as part of the Kilkenny Night-Time Economy (NTE) initiative
