CONCERTS

fri. 29 .Buffalo's own Goo Goo Dolls return home for an 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 29 show at Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel's Seneca Event Center, 310 Fourth SOLD OUT St., Niagara Falls. Hear all your favorites including "Name," "Slide" and "Iris." Hopefully Johnny and the boys will play "Livin' in a Hut," "Torn Apart" and "No Way Out," too, for those of us from The Continental days. Call 278-4944 or visit www.senec aniagara.com. ."Mark My Words," Hatebreed was "Conceived Through an Act of Violence," and their sound is very metalcore. Go and see them beginning at 7:30 p.m. at the Showplace Theatre, 1063 Grant St., Buffalo, with special guests Sick Of It All, Full Blown Chaos and Subzero. Call 447-1271 or visit www.esievents.com for more information. sat. 30 ."Carry On My Wayward Son" to Niagara Falls as Kansas will tell you all we are is "Dust in the Wind" starting at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 30 at Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel's Seneca Event Center, 310 Fourth St., Niagara Falls. Call 278-4944 or visit www.seneca niagara.com for more information. sun. 31 .Canadian comedian and impressionist André-Philippe Gagnon wil l bring his spellbinding cross between comedy and concert with a cast of hundreds to Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort's Avalon Ballroom, 6380 Fallsview Blvd., Niagara Falls, Ontario, for two shows beginning at 7 and 10:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 31. Call 1-888- 836-8118 or visit www.fallsview casinoresort.com for more information.