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By FRANCES BISHOPP
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Jeff Foster, son of Randolph and Lilo Foster of Washington, Va., has been playing the bapjo ever since he was a child. Last week this life-long passion paid off in a major way when the 32-yearold engineer now living in Bristol, as part of a unique band called Special Delivery, won the Pizza Hut International Bluegrass Showdown in Owensboro, Ky.
The four-piece band had placed first in the Mid-Atlantic regional finals this summer and competed against five other bluegrass bands in the contest.
Special Delivery, described as a Virginia-based band “steeped in tradition” was named the “best of the best” in the battle of the bands which included six of the top emerging bands in the United States and Canada.
■The contest was part of the agenda of Bluegrass Homecoming Week in Owensboro, an event that was carried on radio in both the United States and Canada. The British Broadcasting Corp., Voice of America and others handled it by tape delay.
Noted stars such as Tom T. Hall, Hazel Dickens, Pete Wernick, Jesse McReynolds and J.D. Crowe played for the crowds at
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