associated_acts years_active label article_title landscape background genre image origin name
boys of the lough 1967 -- 1979 temple records robin morton -lrb- musician -rrb-
 yes group_or_band folk music , celtic music robin_morton _ -lrb- temple_records -rrb- . gif county armagh , northern ireland , united kingdom robin morton
robin morton -lrb- musician -rrb-

robin morton is an irish folk musician who 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 .
morton was born in county armagh , northern ireland and moved to scotland to study a phd -lrb- lapsed -rrb- 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 kinmor publishing which produces music , and publishes books and sheet music .
the folk music magazine `` the living tradition '' covered robin morton 's life in their 66th issue , in an 11 page special that came out in 2006 .
* http://www.livingtradition.co.uk/htmfiles/issue_66.htm
