Rose of Jo’s Coffee South, Austin, TX shows us how the pros make a mocha. It’s on an early Tuesday morning in Austin and it’s just before the big crowd shows up at Jo’s.

Downtown Jo’s Music!!! Thursday, January 25 at 8 pm - Alice Spencer and her Monkey Butlers plus Ethan and Melissa Friday, January 26 at 8 pm - Balmorhea Sunday, January 28 at 12:30 pm - Andrew Nafziger Trio Monday, January 29 at 8 pm - Balmorhea Tuesday, January 30 at 9 pm - Amy Cook and Amazing Blue Horse Wednesday, Janunary 31 at 5 pm - Game Night and at 8 pm DJ Frankie Jo’s Downtown on 242 W 2nd St 512.469.9003

Amy Cook is a singer songwriter living and working in Austin and Marfa, Texas. Her music has appeared in a variety of films and TV shows including Laguna Beach, The L Word, Veronica Mars, Felicity and Dawson’s Creek. She also wrote and performed original songs for the Emmy-award winning documentary Amargosa. Her fiercely loyal underground following and her budding fans will be mesmerized by The Bunkhouse Recordings, the sweet and spontaneous first release from the independent label, Marfa Records.

balmorhea live performances at jo’s downtown

You’ve had a great coffee drink at Jo’s coffee before. We all have right? But have you ever been there when it was raining outside? I mean when it was actually raining - not just a rainy day. The reason for asking is because of what happens to the coffee beans during rain.

Jo's Coffee South Austin Texas "By this I mean that its energies have been compressed into an incredibly dense morsel that contains all of the trappings that a larger shop would, but they occupy little to no space, which in turn causes the space next to the building to assume that function or sensibility, to be drawn into it. Jo’s does not send out rays of itself, it consumes space by claiming it with visual energy."

Alice Spencer & Her Monkey Butlers perform jazz and blues from the 1920’s and 1930’s, as well as original material. The band is led by singer Alice Spencer with Mark Rubin on the helicon (Bad Livers, Klezmer Brass All-Stars), Pops Bayless on “Chicago Style” tenor banjo (Shorty Long, Asylum Street Spankers), Joe Cordi on piano (Giant City Sextet), Ben Saffer on clarinet and C-melody saxophone (Rubinchik’s Yiddish Ensemble, Victrola), and Oliver Steck on trumpet.

joscoffee.com/blog Jo’s Coffee has a new blog (4 days old) and they’re getting ready to host a series of great films, geek user group meetings, music events and other smokin’ events. They’ve equipped their coffeehouse with a high definition video / svga projector and surround sound system.

Jo’s Downtown will be rolling out it’s first film event Monday night, January 8th. Jo’s Downtown is located at 242 West Second Street, within a stone’s throw of the new rusty City Hall. Parking is free and plentiful in the City Hall garage. This the Future Film Forum Film Cluster’s first showing at Jo’s Coffee on the new high definition video system. The Future Forum Film Cluster meets the first Monday of the month to watch and discuss a film. Films they have watched and discussed in the past include: Last Days of the San Jose, Born Into Brothels, Crash, Jarhead, Goodnight and Goodluck, and others. For more information, to suggest a film, or to be added to the Film Cluster list, please email Taline at Taline@austin.rr.com

Highly popular open air coffee house in the heart of Austin's "soco" (South Congress) district. Music events, movies, friendly folks, munchies.