The town is home to Kirkbymoorside Town Brass Band, which has achieved success on a national level, most recently winning the North of England Brass Band First Section Championship in 2004, 2008 and 2015.
The anarchist poet and critic Herbert Read was born at Muscoates,[REF] about four miles south of Kirkbymoorside,[REF] and the area surrounding the town provided the inspiration for his only completed novel, The Green Child [REF].