She provides backing vocals, piano, keyboards and accordion for the Canadian rock band Crash Test Dummies.

[7] While studying in Winnipeg in the late 1980s, Reid joined a band "Brad Roberts and the St.James Rhythm Pigs" who were playing in local taverns.

The group, renamed "Crash Test Dummies", performed at the Winnipeg Folk Festival in 1989, and released an album, The Ghosts That Haunt Me, in 1991.

She also sang lead during some concerts on "Samson and Delilah (If I Had My Way)" and on the hit, "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead", a cover of the XTC song.

[12] In 2002 Reid took part in the recording of the Crash Test Dummies' Christmas album, entitled Jingle All the Way.