The Catamount Lounge

The Catamount Lounge Thoughtfully-crafted cocktails and food, live music and events. Thoughtfully crafted cocktails and food.

Coming up this week at The Catamount Lounge!Thursday 6/18 (8-10 PM): Live music from Gabriel Bise @ The Catamount Lounge...
06/18/2026

Coming up this week at The Catamount Lounge!

Thursday 6/18 (8-10 PM): Live music from Gabriel Bise @ The Catamount Lounge! Gabriel Bise was born and raised in Front Royal, VA, and has been writing music for the last 6 years. Growing up on artists like George Strait and Bob Dylan among a wide variety of genres especially shaped his love for folk, country, and Americana. He’s currently working on his first studio EP. It leans as heavily on his guitar and banjo playing as it does his lyrical ability, and will be available on all streaming platforms by August. Gabe has been a regular at our open mics for some time; come see him in his first headlining show at The Cat!

Friday 6/19 (8 PM-12 AM): Karaoke with DJ Jan!

Saturday 6/20 (8:30 PM): Ray Jubela & Friends: A Night of Standup Comedy! Join us for our monthly night of hilarity and laughs, featuring comics Gabe Popescu, Kevin Dodd, Kevin Gartland, and Eddie Hoffman, supporting headliner Ray Jubela! Show starts at 8:30 PM; make sure to get there early for preferred seating!

Sunday 6/21 (5-10 PM): Tarot Night! Our immensely popular tarot night returns, with our talented readers Julieta and Leena here to offer you insight into your past, present, and potential future, and help you learn about the art of tarot and interpreting the cards you pull. Julieta and Leena will be set up at The Catamount from 5-10 PM offering tarot or oracle card readings while you enjoy delicious food and cocktails! Readings are free but tipping is encouraged. Guests are also encouraged to bring their own tarot cards! Sign up will be first come first serve.

Monday 6/22 (7-11 PM): Come share your music, your jokes, your poems, your magic...all performance arts welcome! If you can perform it in 15 minutes, we want to see it. Sign up goes out at 6 PM (performers must sign up in person - we recommend signing up early to get a slot!), performances start at 7. Hosted by George Peters.

Tonight, 7 PM: it's Quizzery and Trivialities with Chris K! Gather your wits and your friends and come out for eight rou...
06/14/2026

Tonight, 7 PM: it's Quizzery and Trivialities with Chris K! Gather your wits and your friends and come out for eight rounds of brain-twisting trivia spanning pop culture, history, current events, science, sports, geography, and more, including audio and visual challenges! Will YOUR team take home the winning prize of a $20 Catamount gift card?? Find out starting at 7 PM! Hosted by the hilarious Christopher Allen Kenworthy!

The Catamount Lounge is proud to feature cocktails from three of its bartenders in the 2026 Virginia Spirits Cocktail Ga...
06/13/2026

The Catamount Lounge is proud to feature cocktails from three of its bartenders in the 2026 Virginia Spirits Cocktail Games! This one, "Old Medicine," comes from Shenan Hahn. From Shenan about her cocktail:

"Old Medicine" is a tribute to the botanical medicine endemic to Appalachia. Before access to modern medicine was widespread, folk cures harnessed the healing power of native herbs, flowers, plants, and trees. This cocktail brings forward into the glass the oldest healing practices of our region, capturing a time when one's apothecary was sourced by hand from the life blooming all around them, and recipes and knowledge were passed from person to person, from the earliest inhabitants all the way into the 20th century. It also blends together into something enticing and drinkable: bitter, sweet, herbal, smokey, and earthy all at once.

The base of this cocktail is a root tea: a blend of dried edible roots steeped in hot water that families often each had their own distinct recipe for, and which inspired the creation of what we now know as root beer soda. Dandelion and chicory root compose this tea, both used to support liver health, digestion, and blood sugar. Though many root teas often included sassafras, the FDA now cautions against excessive consumption of the plant. That's where Amaro Averna comes in: it provides a similarly dark, sweet, earthy flavor, bringing a sassafras-like note to the blend. The hickory tree, whose bark was used by indigenous groups and early settlers as an anti-inflammatory and antiseptic agent, treating everything from arthritis to respiratory issues, is also incorporated in the form of a syrup, made by steeping shredded hickory bark in sugar and boiling water. Finally, Virginia-distilled Twin Creeks First Sugar Moonshine provides the backbone of the cocktail, as moonshine was considered its own kind of backwoods "medicine": restorative to the spirit, produced from the ingredients at hand in closely guarded locations and recipes.
Finally, it's garnished with edible native flowers, a tribute to our relationship with the healing power of the natural world around us.

Try one starting now at The Catamount Lounge! And if you didn't know, in addition to owning and operating The Catamount Lounge, Shenan is a musician, and released a song as an accompaniment to this cocktail! It's called "Light Of The Midnight Sun," and is available to stream everywhere. Check it out, and her music page at Shenan Hahn Music.

The Catamount Lounge is proud to feature cocktails from three of its bartenders in the 2026 Virginia Spirits Cocktail Ga...
06/13/2026

The Catamount Lounge is proud to feature cocktails from three of its bartenders in the 2026 Virginia Spirits Cocktail Games! This one, "Rum Shaker," comes from Christopher Allen Kenworthy. From Chris about his cocktail:

The "Rum Shaker" is a tip of the fitted cap brim to the 1992 hit single "Rump Shaker," performed by Wreckx-n-Effect and written by Pharrell Williams of future Neptunes fame, which intoxicated the charts and dancefloors, bringing Virginia into the ring as a competitor to be reckoned with in the rising hip hop and recording artist industry. This song is especially important historically because it brought one of the most influential duos in hip hop into the spotlight: Virginia's own Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, aka The Neptunes who were discovered by Wreckx-n-Effect frontman Teddy Riley at a local high school talent show.

Due to the upbeat and vibrant nature of "Rump Shaker," I felt that the tropical fruit notes and high octane would make the Virago Rum 151 the perfect spirit to provide the backbone of the drink (and the dancing courage to the consumer). Going with a mojito-style drink was the obvious choice for me, but I wanted to shake things up a bit, pun intended. Citing Chad Hugo's Filipino heritage and my own love for Filipino flavors, calamansi syrup, ube syrup, Thai basil, and sugar cane were brought into the mix. Finally, the aesthetic of the "Rum Shaker," with its contrasting colors and flamboyant garnishing, are where we see the spirit of Pharrell in this drink. Soda water and saline bring all the flavors together on the finish.

The Track "Rump Shaker" truly encapsulated a moment in time in Virginia musical history in an unexpected way. It brought Virginia to the forefront of entertainment and The Neptunes and Pharrell Williams to the world. Similarly, "Rum Shaker" brings unexpected flavors and presentation to the glass that meld together into a memorable and unique cocktail.

Try one starting now, at The Catamount Lounge! Parental Advisory Warning: After a Couple "Rum Shakers" you'll find yourself just wanting to Zooma-Zoom-Zoom and Shake Your Rump!

The Catamount Lounge is proud to feature cocktails from three of its bartenders in the 2026 Virginia Spirits Cocktail Ga...
06/13/2026

The Catamount Lounge is proud to feature cocktails from three of its bartenders in the 2026 Virginia Spirits Cocktail Games! This one, "Royal Oak," comes from Julieta Hernandez. From Julieta about her cocktail:

From the cannons fired, the lines drawn, and different flags planted, the small Virginia town I live in carries a wealth of rich, bittersweet stories. Theories say the name "Front Royal" comes from a large oak tree, nicknamed the Royal Oak, which was used as a battle checkpoint. I’ve made it the concept of my cocktail, "Royal Oak”: a tribute to Front Royal, and the rich colonial and revolutionary war history that happened in Virginia. In this riff on a Manhattan, gun smoke, red coats, and land acquisition echo with every sip.

The hero spirit, Royall Rye Whiskey from Deep Creek Distillery blends the best of rye and other whiskey grains, tastefully finished in oak barrels. The blend can remind one of the American Civil War, of which prominent trails run through Main Street. The British held their colonies in Front Royal, and Virginia at large, until we began the struggle for independence in 1776. British-made Pimm's No.1 represents the old country whose rule we freed ourselves from. Of course, as a Manhattan riff, we have to have Angostura bitters—also a British ingredient. The French also had interest in the town of Front Royal, as well as supported the Virginia militias in the war. French-made absinthe rinses the glass for this cocktail to give it further complexity. Cayenne pepper and oak smoke represent the heat of gun fire… as well as the sacred earth burned up from native land long ago in this Helltown (another nickname for Front Royal!) as colonists invaded and changed it forever.

Oftentimes, we forget how much history exists on the ground beneath us. While we can regret how bloody things might have gotten, we can also be astonished to learn how much influence other countries have given us, or the drama of events that got us to where we are here: a noble town hiding it’s secrets in Shenandoah Valley, as I’ve represented by this slightly sweet, slightly smoky, slightly spicy and delicious cocktail, The Royal Oak.

Try one starting now at The Catamount Lounge!

Coming up this week at The Cat - chock full of great events and entertainment!Thursday 6/11 (8-10 PM): Spirit of 1977: A...
06/11/2026

Coming up this week at The Cat - chock full of great events and entertainment!

Thursday 6/11 (8-10 PM): Spirit of 1977: An Evening of Acoustic Punk Classics! Join Joe Plenzler and Paul Jannicola for an evening celebrating acoustic punk classics from the likes of OG bands such as The Misfits, The Clash, The Ramones, The Stooges, and more! Transport yourself back in time to 1977, when raw punk energy was exploding on the scene, as Joe and Paul bring these classics into the modern era.

Friday 6/12 (8 PM-12 AM): Karaoke with DJ Jan!

Saturday 6/13 (8-11 PM): Live music from Andrew Copenhaver @ The Catamount Lounge! Andrew Copenhaver, hailing from the hills of West Virginia, cut his teeth on the road for years playing lead guitar, but now is back with his own sound steeped in electrifying blues and rich folk. Andrew’s energy comes from an honest place — having been on the wrong side of the blue, he performs with a conviction not everyone has. Popular covers and deep, inspirational originals comprising instrumentals laden with a metal slide and an aggressive blues signature create an explosive recipe with the blend of blues, rock, country, and folk.

Sunday 6/14 (7 PM): Quizzery and Trivialities with Chris K! Gather your wits and your friends and come out for eight rounds of brain-twisting trivia spanning pop culture, history, current events, science, sports, geography, and more, including audio and visual challenges! Will YOUR team take home the winning prize of a $20 Catamount gift card?? Find out starting at 7 PM! Hosted by the hilarious Chris Christopher Allen Kenworthy!

Monday 6/15 (7-10 PM): Open Mic Night! Come share your music, your jokes, your poems, your magic...all performance arts welcome! If you can perform it in 15 minutes, we want to see it. Sign up goes out at 6 PM (performers must sign up in person - we recommend signing up early to get a slot!), performances start at 7. Hosted by George Peters.

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Front Royal, VA
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