After pursuing an acting career in the early 1990s, Downie formed Enter the Haggis in Toronto in 1995 shortly before the band's first performance.

Starting with Whitelake in 2011, Enter the Haggis's next three studio albums were funded with $150,000.00 raised through crowdfunding sites Bandzoogle, Kickstarter, and PledgeMusic.

[4] The album was named after White Lake, Ontario near where the recording studio was located, and in which Buchanan capsized his canoe in the near-freezing water and had to swim to shore.

[21] In July 2012, the band launched a campaign on Kickstarter to raise the funds needed to produce The Modest Revolution, a concept album with songs all inspired by articles from a March 30, 2012 edition of The Globe and Mail.

[23] On November 1, 2013, Enter the Haggis launched a campaign on PledgeMusic, called "The Penny Black Project", to create a new album based on story submissions from their fans.

[24] In September 2014, the band announced via social media and their website that it was retiring the Enter the Haggis name and recording and performing as Jubilee Riots.

[30] The announcement coincided with the release of Cheers and Echoes, a compilation album to mark the band's 20th anniversary, consisting of songs spanning the period of 1998 to 2015.

In 2020, following another Kickstarter campaign to cover production costs, they released their ninth studio album,The Archer's Parade, via a livestream listening party.

She had previously appeared on stage with Enter the Haggis on tour, besides being a member of House of Hamill with her boyfriend Brian Buchanan.