Biography
Robin Morton
Real name: Robert Samual Morton
Effective period / Period of releases: 1970
Irish folk musician, label owner and managerBorn: 24th December 1939 Portadown, County Armargh, North Ireland
Died: 1st October 2021
Founded the folk band Boys of the Lough in 1967 along with Tommy Gunn and Cathal McConnell. Robin left the band 1979 after setting up a folk label called Temple Records.
He moved to Edinburgh, Scotland in 1970 to study a PhD (lapsed) at Edinburgh University. In 1969.he became manager of the Scottish folk group Battlefield Band in 1980 and continues to manage and release material by the band to this day. Morton then set up Temple US Records in the 1980s. He also set up a publishing company called Kinmore Publishing which produces music, and publishes books and sheet music.
Married to Alison Kinnaird.