Guilds + Phil & Robin Cain Kadidlo
Biography
Humble, genius, musicians.
Three words that are rarely heard in the same breath. Yet, when Robin and Phil gather a crowd around a piano or set their sights on creating a worship experience, those words flow perfectly together and the magic happens.
Phil and Robin Cain Kadidlo have been making beautiful music together since college days, and have been writing, composing and leading worship in various settings ever since. Robin is a sensitive writer, a poet, and “Rich Melheim’s favorite female voice in the world.” Phil is a keyboard genius, an careful arranger, and a gifted composer. Both have served as Worship Coordinator at Trinity Lutheran in Stillwater, MN. Together they share four tow-headed home-schooled kids, a talent for bringing the best out of any song, and a knack for creating inspiring worship music.
Phil’s gifts to Faith Inkubators started back when FINK only had a few skits and Bible Studies. Back in 1994 he engineered our first CD out of the church library closet, “The Ten Commandments: And then some.” After the CD became a part of the FINK curriculum, he helped launch what would become the Faith Inkubators Music Guild and put us in touch with his friend Tony Axtell. Phil also arranged three of Rich’s musical comedies, one cantata, and lent his talents to our first prayer journey tapes. His songs “I Will Be Your God” and “High Priest” (co-written in a Prince-like R&B style with Pete Erickson) are still favorites.
Robin shared her talents into some of our very first music, writing and recording “If We Confess,” “Where You Go,” “Trust in the Lord,” “The Grace,’ “I Lift Up My Eyes,” and “Speak, Lord,” among other songs. She also lent her voice to Rich Melheim’s “Looking to Jesus” and “Remember the Sabbath,” Jon Anderson’s “Daily Bread” and “Our Father,” Scott Tunseth’s “Deliver Us From Evil,” and Richard Webb’s “In the Night” (a song that would make a heathen take communion).
“I knew they had something special the first time I stepped into the pulpit after them,” says Rev. Rich Melheim, who served at their church back in the last millennium. “They had a way of readying the crowd for worship and the Word that was amazing. They’d set the mood and hand the congregation right to you, ripe and ready to listen. What more could a preacher ask of a worship team?”
Phil and Robin, for all your kindness, for sharing your gifts with the FINK network, and for helping us get into Scripture music as a teaching tool at the ground-floor level, we are honored to name you the Faith Inkubators Music Guild Artists of the Month!
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